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Postural Control Entropy Is Increased When Adopting an External Focus of Attention
- Source :
- Motor control. 23(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Falls in older adults are a public health challenge due to their influence on well-being and health-care costs. One way to address this challenge is to discover new methods to enhance postural control in older adults so they are better prepared to maintain an upright stance. Older and younger adults (N?=?32) performed a static balance task on a force plate with no instructions, internal focus instructions, or external focus instructions. Center of pressure displacement time series were analyzed using sample entropy and standard deviation. Only the external focus condition significantly increased postural control entropy, which was observed across both age groups. This study showed that an external focus of attention can be used to increase postural control entropy within a single session of testing.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Entropy
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Falls in older adults
Standard deviation
Postural control
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Physiology (medical)
medicine
Entropy (information theory)
Humans
Attention
Postural Balance
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
030229 sport sciences
Middle Aged
Sample entropy
Younger adults
External focus
Female
Neurology (clinical)
Psychology
Single session
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10871640
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Motor control
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....70d163c32f95f5031c93c3c48cf8a25f