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- Title
Functional Control of Stance in Older Adults.
- Authors
Stoffregen, Thomas A.
- Abstract
It is widely assumed that healthy aging includes a decline in the stability of standing body sway. Certainly, the spatial magnitude of postural sway increases with age. However, the interpretation of this effect as a decline in the ability to stabilize posture rests, in part, on assumptions about the nature and definition of stability in stance. In this article, I review data on the control of standing posture in healthy older adults. I focus on a growing list of studies that demonstrate the retention, among healthy older adults, of the ability functionally to modulate postural sway in support of "suprapostural" activities. I address laboratory research, but also field studies carried out in a setting that dramatically challenges the control of stance: life on ships at sea. I argue that it may be possible, and certainly will be useful, to address directly the functional control of stance in older adults.
- Subjects
OLDER people physiology; HUMAN mechanics; KINESIOLOGY; POSTURE; AGING; GERIATRICS
- Publication
Kinesiology Review, 2016, Vol 5, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
2163-0453
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/kr.2015-0049