Nicolas Vuillerme

..Altogether, the present findings suggest that attentional focus on body sway, induced by the instructions, promoted the use of less automatic control process and hampered the efficiency for controlling posture during quiet standing...

..These results suggested that the therapeutic manipulation of the feet and ankles allows the elderly adults to partially compensate for the destabilising effect induced by the suppression of vision...

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..Frequency-domain and stabilogram-diffusion analyses further suggested these decreased COP displacements to be associated with an increased stiffness and a reduction of the exploratory behaviours in the short term, respectively...

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..Together, the present findings suggest that head extension position yields a reorganisation of the control mechanisms for maintaining undisturbed upright stance...

..Previous studies have shown that normal aging and pathologies may lead to deterioration of the control of upright standing posture...

..The decrease of hip and trunk flexion and the lower inclination of the pole during the poling phase suggested a reduced effectiveness of the force application which could lead to a decrease in the cycle velocity...

..General and individual adaptations were observed among the top-level swimmers studied. The present findings could be useful for coaches in evaluating fatigue effects on the technical parameters of swimming...

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..This could have implications in clinical and rehabilitative areas...

..To assess the effects of the scaled display of visual foot center of pressure (COP) feedback on upright postural control under different somatosensory conditions at the foot and the ankle...

..To assess the effects of scale display of visual feedback (VFB) on postural control during quiet standing in healthy elderly subjects...

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..The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of trunk extensor muscles fatigue on undisturbed postural control in young healthy adults...

..e. sagittal plane movers of the lower extremities) and (2) the skeletal muscles involved in postural control during quiet standing (i.e. sagittal and frontal plane movers of the lower extremities for the AP and ML balance, respectively)...

..fatigued muscles are less sensitive to muscle vibration and (2). the central nervous system relies less upon proprioceptive information originating from fatigued muscles for regulating postural sway...

..The purpose of the present experiment was to investigate whether the calf muscle fatigue affects postural sway in bipedal stance and requires additional attentional demands...

..To investigate whether a light finger touch can compensate for the increased postural sway induced by lower-limb muscular fatigue...

..These findings suggest a decreased dependency on attentional processes for regulating postural sway during unipedal stance in gymnasts with respect to non-gymnasts...

..CONCLUSIONS: This study provided evidence that mirror feedback may put elderly adults at lower risk of falling...

..The present findings suggest that the ability to use a light fingertip touch as a source of sensory information to improve postural control during quiet standing is attention demanding...

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..The present findings evidenced the ability of the central nervous system to efficiently integrate an artificial plantar-based, tongue-placed tactile biofeedback for controlling control posture during quiet standing...

..We conclude that a specific postural experience could be considered as an intrinsic constraint, which leads to modification in the patterns of functional adaptation in the perceptive motor space...

..All algorithms are described and the performances are evaluated on real data recorded with 20 elderly people. Results show that the method using the DWT decomposition is the most efficient (78.5% in sensitivity and 67.6% in specificity)...

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..Adding cognitive exercises did not provide added efficacy. CONCLUSIONS: Balance was improved after the exercise sessions. The improvements were clinically significant and increased over time...

..These findings suggested that the central nervous system was able to take advantage of an artificial tongue-placed tactile biofeedback to improve the position sense at the ankle joint...

..Results showed that subjects veered in all conditions. Furthermore, more accurate performances were observed in the Distraction condition compared to the Control condition, while the Concentration condition led to larger deviations...