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The Effect of Visual Deprivation and Proprioceptive Change on Postural Sway in Healthy Adults
Author(s) -
Ring C.,
Nayak U. S. L.,
Isaacs B.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1989.tb02237.x
Subject(s) - medicine , proprioception , sensation , physical medicine and rehabilitation , sensory system , sensory deprivation , center of pressure (fluid mechanics) , quiet , foot pressure , audiology , balance (ability) , physical therapy , psychology , neuroscience , physics , alternative medicine , pressure sensor , pathology , aerodynamics , quantum mechanics , engineering , thermodynamics , aerospace engineering
In 39 healthy active people aged 17 to 79 who had not fallen, anteroposterior sway during quiet standing increased slightly with age; there was no increase with age in lateral sway. Sway increased on deprivation of visual information and altered proprioception due to foot pressure sensory change in all age groups, and especially when both forms of sensation were altered concurrently; but the increase of sway on pressure sensory change was no greater in the older than in the younger subjects.