Postural control is the ability to maintain, achieve, and restore balance during standing, sitting, and movement. It depends on the integration of visual, vestibular, and somatosensory information by the central nervous system, which coordinates muscular responses to keep the body's center of mass stable and to reco…
Postural control is the ability to maintain, achieve, and restore balance during standing, sitting, and movement. It depends on the integration of visual, vestibular, and somatosensory information by the central nervous system, which coordinates muscular responses to keep the body's center of mass stable and to recover from perturbations. Effective postural control is essential for safe mobility, and its decline contributes to falls, particularly in older adults and in people with neurological disease. The articles gathered here examine balance, falls, and the factors that influence them. Balance assessment and reactive responses are studied through the Star Excursion Balance Test with and without ankle bandaging and through reactive stepping responses to waist-pull perturbations in relation to fall history. Falls and their determinants in older adults appear in work on vitamin D and balance capacity and on the link between osteoarthritis and falls. Movement disorders are represented by analyses of gait rhythmicity in Parkinson's disease and outcomes of deep brain stimulation, while vestibular contributions feature in a report of positional vertigo producing down-beat nystagmus. Exercise-based intervention is considered through Tai-Chi training in older adults with knee osteoarthritis. Together these contributions reflect the central concerns of postural control research: understanding how sensory integration and motor responses maintain balance, why that capacity deteriorates, and how assessment and intervention can reduce fall risk.
10 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
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