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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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A neurocognitive perspective on developmental disregard in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy.
TL;DR: A neuropsychological model is provided that relates developmental disregard to attentional processes and motor learning and hypothesizes that high attentional demands associated with the use of the affected upper limb might hinder its use in daily life, and therefore may be a factor in developmental disregard.
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Fear of Falling and Coexisting Sensory Difficulties As Predictors of Mobility Decline in Older Women
Anne Viljanen,Jenni Kulmala,Merja Rantakokko,Markku Koskenvuo,Jaakko Kaprio,Jaakko Kaprio,Taina Rantanen +6 more
TL;DR: Older women who have several coexisting sensory difficulties combined with FOF are particularly vulnerable to mobility decline when multiple sensory difficulties hinder reception of accurate information about the environment, resulting in accelerated decline in walking ability.
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Reliability of voluntary step execution behavior under single and dual task conditions
TL;DR: A voluntary step execution test, performed under single and dual task conditions especially foot-off and foot-contact times, is a reliable outcome measure that may be a useful tool to asses dynamic balance function for diagnostic purposes as well as clinical intervention trials.
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The interacting effect of cognitive and motor task demands on performance of gait, balance and cognition in young adults.
Tony Szturm,Pramila Maharjan,Jonathan J. Marotta,Barbara L. Shay,Shiva Shrestha,Vedant Sakhalkar +5 more
TL;DR: Walking speed is an important variable to be controlled in studies that are designed to examine effects of concurrent cognitive tasks on locomotor rhythm, pacing and stability.
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Non-visual spatial tasks reveal increased interactions with stance postural control.
TL;DR: The results suggest that it is the employment of limited non-visual spatially based coding resources that may underlie previously observed visual dual-task interference effects with stance postural control in healthy young 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.