CPUEX, Centro Universitario de Plasencia, University of Extremadura, Avda. Virgen del Puerto 2, 10600 Plasencia, Spain.
Podiatry Department, University of Seville, C/Avicena s/n, 41009 Seville, Spain.
Sensors (Basel). 2021 Nov 19;21(22):7684. doi: 10.3390/s21227684.
The incidence of falls in adults constitutes a public health problem, and the alteration in balance is the most important factor. It is necessary to evaluate this through objective tools in order to quantify alterations and prevent falls. This study aims to determine the existence of alteration of balance and the influence of age in a population of healthy women. Static posturography was performed on 49 healthy adult women with no history of falls in four different situations using the Romberg test with the NedSVE/IBV platform. The variables studied were the body sway area and the anteroposterior and mediolateral displacements. The situation of maximum instability occurred in RGC ( 0.001), with a significant increase in anteroposterior oscillations regarding the ML ( 0.001), with no correlation to age. Age alone does not influence the balance in the sample studied, other factors must come together to alter it. The joint cancellation of visual and somatosensory afferents could facilitate the appearance of falls, given that it is a situation of maximum instability. Proprioceptive training is interesting as a preventive strategy for falls.
成年人跌倒的发生率构成了一个公共卫生问题，而平衡的改变是最重要的因素。有必要通过客观工具对此进行评估，以量化改变并预防跌倒。本研究旨在确定平衡改变的存在以及年龄对健康女性人群的影响。对 49 名无跌倒史的健康成年女性在 NedSVE/IBV 平台的 Romberg 测试中进行了 4 种不同情况下的静态姿势描记术。研究的变量包括身体摆动面积以及前后和左右位移。最大不稳定情况发生在 RGC（0.001），前后摆动的幅度与 ML 相比显著增加（0.001），与年龄无关。在研究样本中，年龄本身并不影响平衡，其他因素必须共同作用才能改变平衡。视觉和躯体感觉传入的联合消除可能会导致跌倒的发生，因为这是最大不稳定的情况。本体感受训练作为预防跌倒的策略很有趣。
