THE INFLUENCE OF HEAD POSITION ON POSTURAL STABILITY
Keywords:
postural stability, postural control, head position, eye dominance, 3D videography method, force plates
Abstract
The influence of head position on the stance stability was studied in a set of 51 healthy university students (men, n = 21; women, n = 30) in a bipedal stance and the stance on left and right leg respectively. The head position was standardised by observation of a fixed point through dominant and nondominant eye. Two AMTI force plates and 3D kinematic analysis (APAS system) were used for the evaluation of posture stability. No significant differences were found in the bipedal stance in all test procedures. The differences in the head positions have statistically and significantly influenced only the posture stability by stance on the left leg in both groups (dominant eye right and left) in contrast to the stance on the right leg where the differences were not statistically significant.
Section
Muscle-Skeleton-Mechanics
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