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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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Gait in Parkinson's disease: a visuo-cognitive challenge
TL;DR: A key finding was that attention appears to play a pivotal role in mediating gait, cognition and vision, and should be considered emphatically in future research in this field.
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Influence of enhanced visual feedback on postural control and spinal reflex modulation during stance
TL;DR: It is suggested that postural sway can be reduced by a handheld laser pointer targeting on an external reference point, and argued that altered visual input was responsible for modulating the H-reflex.
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Successful adaptation of gait in healthy older adults during dual-task treadmill walking
TL;DR: Under high cognitive load, older adults appeared to successfully adapt their stride in response to high cognitive demands, and young adults showed negligible dual-task costs in each domain.
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Parallel processing of cognitive and physical demands in left and right prefrontal cortices during smartphone use while walking
TL;DR: Smartphone game playing while walking decreased the cognitive and gait performances compared with performances of single-task condition in older group more than in young group, and lateralization of motor and cognitive tasks aids in efficient task completion during a complex action such as using a smartphone while walking.
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Voluntary sway and rapid orthogonal transitions of voluntary sway in young adults, and low and high fall-risk older adults
TL;DR: Age-related deterioration of postural control resulted in slower reactive responses and reduced control of the direction of body movement during voluntary sway and orthogonal transitions, which are associated with increased fall-risk in community-living older people.
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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.