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Attention and the control of posture and gait: a review of an emerging area of research
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New clinical assessment methods incorporating dual-task paradigms are helpful in revealing the effect of disease on the ability to allocate attention to postural tasks and appear to be sensitive measures in both predicting fall risk and in documenting recovery of stability.About:
This article is published in Gait & Posture.The article was published on 2002-08-01. It has received 2331 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Poison control & Balance (ability).read more
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Quantification of gait changes in subjects with visual height intolerance when exposed to heights.
Roman Schniepp,Günter Kugler,Max Wuehr,Maria Eckl,Doreen Huppert,Sabrina Huth,Cauchy Pradhan,Klaus Jahn,Thomas Brandt +8 more
TL;DR: It is conceivable that mental distraction by dual task or increasing the walking speed might be useful recommendations to reduce the imbalance during locomotion in subjects susceptible to vHI.
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Multiple Object Tracking While Walking: Similarities and Differences Between Young, Young-Old, and Old-Old Adults
TL;DR: This work addresses the issue of changes in dual-task behavior at different stages of life, particularly in the latter stages, by developing a dual task that combined walking along an 8-m walkway with a multiple object tracking (MOT) task of increasing difficulty.
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Effects of manual task complexity on gait parameters in school-aged children and adults.
Laurel Daniels Abbruzzese,Ashwini Rao,Rachel Bellows,Kristina Figueroa,Jennifer Levy,Esther Lim,Lauren Puccio +6 more
TL;DR: Gait in healthy young adults and school aged children was relatively unaffected by concurrent performance of simple versions of the manual tasks, and dual-task gait in school agedChildren is still developing and has not yet reached adult capacity.
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Identification of gait patterns in individuals with cerebral palsy using multiple correspondence analysis.
TL;DR: The feasibility of the MCA was showed in order to characterize and classify a large database of CP patients, using multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), and seven most explicative gait parameters used to characterize gait ofCP patients were identified.
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Effect of working memory and spatial attention tasks on gait in healthy young and older adults.
TL;DR: Changes in gait parameters induced by the concomitant performance of one of two cognitive tasks activating working memory and spatial attention, was examined in young adults and older adults.
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The Timed “Up & Go”: A Test of Basic Functional Mobility for Frail Elderly Persons
TL;DR: This study evaluated a modified, timed version of the “Get‐Up and Go” Test (Mathias et al, 1986) in 60 patients referred to a Geriatric Day Hospital and suggested that the timed “Up & Go’ test is a reliable and valid test for quantifying functional mobility that may also be useful in following clinical change over time.
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Predicting the probability for falls in community-dwelling older adults using the Timed Up & Go Test.
TL;DR: The TUG is a sensitive and specific measure for identifying community-dwelling adults who are at risk for falls and the ability to predict falls is not enhanced by adding a secondary task when performing the TUG.
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Motor Control: Theory and Practical Applications
TL;DR: This text bridges the gap between research/theory and practice by focusing on the scientific and experimental basis of new motor control theories by specifically illustrating how recent findings and theories can be applied to clinical practice.
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"Stops walking when talking" as a predictor of falls in elderly people.
TL;DR: This investigation investigated the usefulness of the sign “stops walking when talking” in predicting falls and found that some frail elderly patients stop walking when they start a conversation with a walking companion, presumably because walking demands attention and they stop when they are expected to do two things at once.
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The Effects of Two Types of Cognitive Tasks on Postural Stability in Older Adults With and Without a History of Falls
TL;DR: Results suggest that when postural stability is impaired, even relatively simple cognitive tasks can further impact balance and suggest that the allocation of attention during the performance of concurrent tasks is complex.