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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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Combining Movement Kinematics, Efficiency Functions, and Brinley Plots to Study Age-Related Slowing of Sensorimotor Processes: Insights from Fitts' Task
TL;DR: The results showed that significant changes in both slowing and variability of the different processes occurred late in life, which raises the question of whether age-related slowing and increase in variability observed in both cognitive and sensorimotor domains share common causes in the central nervous system.
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Attention demands of postural control in non-specific chronic low back pain subjects with low and high pain-related anxiety
TL;DR: Significantly reduced sway area was observed in CLBP patients with high pain-related anxiety and control subjects during the dual-task condition as compared with the single task, and A–P range was significantly reduced during dual tasking when eyes were closed with ankle vibration.
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The influence of oculomotor tasks on postural control in dyslexic children.
TL;DR: The poor oculomotor performance reported in dyslexic children suggested a deficit in allocating visual attention and their postural instability observed is in line with the cerebellar impairment previously reported in DyslexicChildren.
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The effect of text messaging on reactive balance and the temporal and spatial characteristics of gait
Andrew J. Strubhar,Melissa L. Peterson,Jessica Aschwege,Joey Ganske,Jessica Kelley,Hope Schulte +5 more
TL;DR: The data imply that gait and balance are negatively impacted while texting and that subjects will maintain their baseline texting speed and accuracy at the expense of gait speed and impaired balance.
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Factors Contributing to Perceived Walking Difficulties in People with Parkinson’s Disease
TL;DR: Motor and non-motor symptoms as well as personal factors seem to be of importance for perceived walking difficulties in PD, which might nurture future interventions that address modifiable factors in order to enhance walking ability in people with PD.
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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.