Loading Posture Control in Anterior and Posterior Positions Using SEBT

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10.2991/aetr-17.2018.27How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Balance; Anterior position; Posterior position; Star Excursion Balance Test; Normalized excursion distance

Abstract

Objective: The Star Excursion Balance Test (SEBT) is a valid method to measure dynamic balance. Load carriage in anterior and posterior positions would have different balance control ability. Methods: Twenty healthy young males were volunteered to this experiment and performed SEBT with load carriage in anterior and posterior positions in 0%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% body weight loads. Vicon system and MATLAB software were used to calculate the result of SEBT. ICC and One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) with repeated measures analysed the variation tendency and one-way ANOVA analysed the differences between each condition. Results: The normalized excursion distance (%) has decreasing trends with the increase of loads no matter anterior or posterior positions. Load carriage would cause balance disturbances. However, posterior position shows significant decreasing trends while anterior position shows modest decreasing trends. In addition, anterior positions show larger results of SEBT than posterior positions among almost all the conditions. It indicated that anterior positions have higher balance control ability than posterior positions. Conclusion: From the Cyto Scape-web which is used to show the differences between each weight of loads, 0% and 5% loads indicate significant differences compare with other loads in posterior position. On the other hand, 0% and 20% loads show significant differences in anterior position. It observed that above 5% loads were affect balance control ability for load carriage in posterior position and below 20% loads was the avoidable weight to anterior position. This study provides new measure to test the dynamic balance during load carriage. Load carriage would cause injury due to overbalance, anterior position has higher risk than posterior position.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Huiyu Zhou
AU  - Siqin Shen
AU  - Yaodong Gu
PY  - 2018/03
DA  - 2018/03
TI  - Loading Posture Control in Anterior and Posterior Positions Using SEBT
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference Advanced Engineering and Technology Research (AETR 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 132
EP  - 137
SN  - 2352-5401
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