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Practice walking on a treadmill-mounted balance beam modifies beam walking sacral movement and alters performance in other balance tasks

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PLOS ONE
卷 18, 期 6, 页码 -

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283310

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The goals of this study were to determine the effects of practicing walking on a treadmill mounted balance beam on sacral marker movement kinematics and balance measures. Participants trained with intermittent visual occlusions or unperturbed vision. Results showed significant changes in sacral marker velocity after training, but no significant group differences. There was limited evidence of balance transfer from beam-walking practice to treadmill walking and standing balance.
The goals of this study were to determine if a single 30-minute session of practice walking on a treadmill mounted balance beam: 1) altered sacral marker movement kinematics during beam walking, and 2) affected measures of balance during treadmill walking and standing balance. Two groups of young, healthy human subjects practiced walking on a treadmill mounted balance beam for thirty minutes. One group trained with intermittent visual occlusions and the other group trained with unperturbed vision. We hypothesized that the subjects would show changes in sacrum movement kinematics after training and that there would be group differences due to larger improvements in beam walking performance by the visual occlusions group. We also investigated if there was any balance transfer from training on the beam to treadmill walking (margin of stability) and to standing static balance (center of pressure excursion). We found significant differences in sacral marker maximal velocity after training for both groups, but no significant differences between the two groups from training. There was limited evidence of balance transfer from beam-walking practice to gait margin of stability for treadmill walking and for single leg standing balance, but not for tandem stance balance. The number of step-offs while walking on a narrow beam had the largest change with training (partial & eta;(2) = 0.7), in accord with task specificity. Other balance metrics indicative of transfer had lower effect sizes (partial & eta;(2)<0.5). Given the limited transfer across balance training tasks, future work should examine how intermittent visual occlusions during multi-task training improve real world functional outcomes.

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