Effect of a change in step direction from a forward to a lateral target in response to a sensory perturbation
- Authors
- Kim, Hyeong-Dong; Brunt, Denis
- Issue Date
- 8월-2013
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCI LTD
- Keywords
- Gait initiation; Falls; Sensory perturbation
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF ELECTROMYOGRAPHY AND KINESIOLOGY, v.23, no.4, pp.851 - 857
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF ELECTROMYOGRAPHY AND KINESIOLOGY
- Volume
- 23
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 851
- End Page
- 857
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/102544
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jelekin.2013.03.001
- ISSN
- 1050-6411
- Abstract
- The aim of the current study was to investigate the response of healthy older and young adults to a change in step direction from a forward to a lateral target in response to a sensory perturbation. Nine healthy older (75.1 +/- 6.7 years; age range, 65-81 years) and nine young adults (27 +/- 3.6 years; age range, 23-31 years) participated in the study. The sensory perturbation was a visual cue presented at random times while subjects stepped over an obstacle from quiet stance. For both young and elderly subjects there was an abrupt change in the slope of both shear ground reaction forces (GRFs) of the stance limb following the perturbation. The slope and peak of the change in GRFs was greater for the young subjects and the onset significantly earlier (205 ms compared to 271 ms). Changes in the GRFs were accompanied by an increase in bilateral gluteus medius and stance limb soleus activity. A late visual cue resulted in a delayed response for elderly subjects. These data show that a stepping response to a sensory perturbation was both delayed and of less magnitude for older adults which has implications for fall risk. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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