Postural perturbations: new insights for treatment of balance disorders.(Special Series on Balance)

Physical Therapy | May 1, 1997| | Copyright

Postural control, although poorly understood, is critical for the efficient and effective performance of all goal-directed activities. A useful experimental approach to understanding neural control of posture is the disrupting of stable equilibrium and the recording of behavioral reactions to these perturbations. Magnus,(1) Rademaker,(2) and Sherrington(3) described responses to disequilibrium in infants and animals almost 100 years ago. Over the last 20 years (see reviews by Horak and Macpherson,(4) Dietz,(5) and Massion(6)), however, the application of new technology to ...

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