Department of Rehabilitation, The Children's Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
Department of Rehabilitation, Józef Piłsudski Univeristy of Physical Education in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Acta Bioeng Biomech. 2020;22(2):121-130.
The aim of the study was to compare the results of six balance tests collected on AMTI AccuSway Plus ACS force platform between healthy female and male children and adolescents. We also searched for possible correlation of the balance measures with subjects' age.
228 healthy 6- to 18-year-old subjects (111 boys and 117 girls) participated in the study. Six balance tests were performed with the use of AMTI AccuSway Plus ACS platform: quiet standing for 30s, maximal voluntary sways of the body in the sagittal plane (anterior-posterior - AP test) for 30 s, and in the frontal plane (left-right - ML test) for 30s. All tests were performed in two conditions: eyes open and eyes closed.
During quiet standing with eyes open, most balance measures were lower in girls ( p < 0.05). In AP and ML tests with eyes open, a few balance parameters were different between boys and girls ( p < 0.05). In quiet standing, AP and ML tests with eyes closed, there were no between-gender differences ( p > 0.05). In quiet standing with eyes open and closed most balance parameters were negatively correlated with age ( p < 0.05).
Quiet standing postural sway characteristics depended on gender under normal visual conditions and it was similar in boys and girls under visual deprivation conditions. The vision was differently used by females and males in balance tasks. Static postural stability improved with age regardless of visual conditions.
本研究旨在比较 AMTI AccuSway Plus ACS 力台面上采集的 6 项平衡测试在健康女性和男性儿童和青少年中的结果。我们还搜索了平衡测量值与受试者年龄之间可能存在的相关性。
228 名健康的 6 至 18 岁受试者（111 名男孩和 117 名女孩）参与了本研究。使用 AMTI AccuSway Plus ACS 平台进行了 6 项平衡测试：30 秒的安静站立，30 秒的矢状面（前后向-AP 测试）和 30 秒的额状面（左右向-ML 测试）的最大自愿身体摆动。所有测试均在睁眼和闭眼两种条件下进行。
在睁眼安静站立时，女孩的大多数平衡测量值较低（p <0.05）。在睁眼的 AP 和 ML 测试中，男孩和女孩之间有几个平衡参数存在差异（p <0.05）。在闭眼的安静站立、AP 和 ML 测试中，性别之间没有差异（p >0.05）。在睁眼和闭眼的安静站立中，大多数平衡参数与年龄呈负相关（p <0.05）。
在正常视觉条件下，安静站立姿势摆动特征取决于性别，在视觉剥夺条件下男孩和女孩相似。女性和男性在平衡任务中使用视觉的方式不同。无论视觉条件如何，静态姿势稳定性都会随着年龄的增长而提高。
