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Sensory Organization Test Conditions Influence Postural Strategy Rather than Footwear or Workload

Background: Postural strategies such as ankle, hip, or combined ankle-hip strategies are used to maintain optimal postural stability, which can be influenced by the footwear type and physiological workload. Purpose: This paper reports previously unreported postural strategy scores during the six con...

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Autores principales: Chander, Harish, Kodithuwakku Arachchige, Sachini N. K., Turner, Alana J., Burch V, Reuben F., Reneker, Jennifer C., Knight, Adam C., Wade, Chip, Garner, John C.
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8508220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639811
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910511
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author Chander, Harish
Kodithuwakku Arachchige, Sachini N. K.
Turner, Alana J.
Burch V, Reuben F.
Reneker, Jennifer C.
Knight, Adam C.
Wade, Chip
Garner, John C.
author_facet Chander, Harish
Kodithuwakku Arachchige, Sachini N. K.
Turner, Alana J.
Burch V, Reuben F.
Reneker, Jennifer C.
Knight, Adam C.
Wade, Chip
Garner, John C.
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description Background: Postural strategies such as ankle, hip, or combined ankle-hip strategies are used to maintain optimal postural stability, which can be influenced by the footwear type and physiological workload. Purpose: This paper reports previously unreported postural strategy scores during the six conditions of the sensory organization test (SOT). Methods: Fourteen healthy males (age: 23.6 ± 1.2 years; height: 181 ± 5.3 cm; mass: 89.2 ± 14.6 kg) were tested for postural strategy adopted during SOT in three types of occupational footwear (steel-toed work boot, tactical work boot, low-top work shoe) every 30 min during a 4-h simulated occupational workload. Postural strategy scores were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance at 0.05 alpha level. Results: Significant differences among postural strategy scores were only evident between SOT conditions, and but not between footwear type or the workload. Conclusions: Findings indicate that occupational footwear and occupational workload did not cause a significant change in reliance on postural strategies. The significant changes in postural strategy scores were due to the availability of accurate and/or conflicting sensory feedback during SOT conditions. In SOT conditions where all three types of sensory feedback was available, the ankle strategy was predominantly adopted, while more reliance on hip strategy occurred in conditions with absent or conflicting sensory feedback.
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spelling pubmed-85082202021-10-13 Sensory Organization Test Conditions Influence Postural Strategy Rather than Footwear or Workload Chander, Harish Kodithuwakku Arachchige, Sachini N. K. Turner, Alana J. Burch V, Reuben F. Reneker, Jennifer C. Knight, Adam C. Wade, Chip Garner, John C. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: Postural strategies such as ankle, hip, or combined ankle-hip strategies are used to maintain optimal postural stability, which can be influenced by the footwear type and physiological workload. Purpose: This paper reports previously unreported postural strategy scores during the six conditions of the sensory organization test (SOT). Methods: Fourteen healthy males (age: 23.6 ± 1.2 years; height: 181 ± 5.3 cm; mass: 89.2 ± 14.6 kg) were tested for postural strategy adopted during SOT in three types of occupational footwear (steel-toed work boot, tactical work boot, low-top work shoe) every 30 min during a 4-h simulated occupational workload. Postural strategy scores were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance at 0.05 alpha level. Results: Significant differences among postural strategy scores were only evident between SOT conditions, and but not between footwear type or the workload. Conclusions: Findings indicate that occupational footwear and occupational workload did not cause a significant change in reliance on postural strategies. The significant changes in postural strategy scores were due to the availability of accurate and/or conflicting sensory feedback during SOT conditions. In SOT conditions where all three types of sensory feedback was available, the ankle strategy was predominantly adopted, while more reliance on hip strategy occurred in conditions with absent or conflicting sensory feedback. MDPI 2021-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8508220/ /pubmed/34639811 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910511 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Kodithuwakku Arachchige, Sachini N. K.
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Reneker, Jennifer C.
Knight, Adam C.
Wade, Chip
Garner, John C.
Sensory Organization Test Conditions Influence Postural Strategy Rather than Footwear or Workload
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title_short Sensory Organization Test Conditions Influence Postural Strategy Rather than Footwear or Workload
title_sort sensory organization test conditions influence postural strategy rather than footwear or workload
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8508220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639811
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910511
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