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Physical active lifestyle promotes static and dynamic balance performance in young and older adults

Although regular physical activity exposure leads to positive postural balance control (PBC) adaptations, few studies investigated its effects, or the one of inactivity, on PBC in populations of different age groups. Thus, this study investigated the impact of a physically active lifestyle on static...

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Autores principales: Sarto, Fabio, Pizzichemi, Martina, Chiossi, Francesco, Bisiacchi, Patrizia S., Franchi, Martino V, Narici, Marco V, Monti, Elena, Paoli, Antonio, Marcolin, Giuseppe
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9428313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36060698
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.986881
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author Sarto, Fabio
Pizzichemi, Martina
Chiossi, Francesco
Bisiacchi, Patrizia S.
Franchi, Martino V
Narici, Marco V
Monti, Elena
Paoli, Antonio
Marcolin, Giuseppe
author_facet Sarto, Fabio
Pizzichemi, Martina
Chiossi, Francesco
Bisiacchi, Patrizia S.
Franchi, Martino V
Narici, Marco V
Monti, Elena
Paoli, Antonio
Marcolin, Giuseppe
author_sort Sarto, Fabio
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description Although regular physical activity exposure leads to positive postural balance control (PBC) adaptations, few studies investigated its effects, or the one of inactivity, on PBC in populations of different age groups. Thus, this study investigated the impact of a physically active lifestyle on static and dynamic PBC in young and older adults. Thirty-five young physically active subjects (YA), 20 young sedentary subjects (YS), 16 physically active older adults (OA), and 15 sedentary older adults (OS) underwent a static and a dynamic PBC assessment. A force platform and an instrumented proprioceptive board were employed to measure the center of pressure (COP) trajectory and the anteroposterior oscillations, respectively. In static conditions, no significant differences were detected among groups considering the overall postural balance performance represented by the area of confidence ellipse values. Conversely, the YA highlighted a higher efficiency (i.e., lower sway path mean velocity) in PBC maintenance compared to the other groups (YA vs OA: p = 0.0057, Cohen’s d = 0.94; YA vs OS p = 0.043, d = 1.07; YA vs YS p = 0.08, d = 0.67). OS exhibited an overall worse performance in dynamic conditions than YA and YS. Surprisingly, no differences were found between YS and OA for all the static and dynamic parameters considered. In conclusion, our results suggest that a physically active lifestyle may promote static and dynamic balance performance in young and older adults, thus with potentially positive effects on the age-related decline of postural balance performance. Dynamic PBC assessment seems more sensitive in detecting differences between groups than the static evaluation.
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spelling pubmed-94283132022-09-01 Physical active lifestyle promotes static and dynamic balance performance in young and older adults Sarto, Fabio Pizzichemi, Martina Chiossi, Francesco Bisiacchi, Patrizia S. Franchi, Martino V Narici, Marco V Monti, Elena Paoli, Antonio Marcolin, Giuseppe Front Physiol Physiology Although regular physical activity exposure leads to positive postural balance control (PBC) adaptations, few studies investigated its effects, or the one of inactivity, on PBC in populations of different age groups. Thus, this study investigated the impact of a physically active lifestyle on static and dynamic PBC in young and older adults. Thirty-five young physically active subjects (YA), 20 young sedentary subjects (YS), 16 physically active older adults (OA), and 15 sedentary older adults (OS) underwent a static and a dynamic PBC assessment. A force platform and an instrumented proprioceptive board were employed to measure the center of pressure (COP) trajectory and the anteroposterior oscillations, respectively. In static conditions, no significant differences were detected among groups considering the overall postural balance performance represented by the area of confidence ellipse values. Conversely, the YA highlighted a higher efficiency (i.e., lower sway path mean velocity) in PBC maintenance compared to the other groups (YA vs OA: p = 0.0057, Cohen’s d = 0.94; YA vs OS p = 0.043, d = 1.07; YA vs YS p = 0.08, d = 0.67). OS exhibited an overall worse performance in dynamic conditions than YA and YS. Surprisingly, no differences were found between YS and OA for all the static and dynamic parameters considered. In conclusion, our results suggest that a physically active lifestyle may promote static and dynamic balance performance in young and older adults, thus with potentially positive effects on the age-related decline of postural balance performance. Dynamic PBC assessment seems more sensitive in detecting differences between groups than the static evaluation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9428313/ /pubmed/36060698 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.986881 Text en Copyright © 2022 Sarto, Pizzichemi, Chiossi, Bisiacchi, Franchi, Narici, Monti, Paoli and Marcolin. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Sarto, Fabio
Pizzichemi, Martina
Chiossi, Francesco
Bisiacchi, Patrizia S.
Franchi, Martino V
Narici, Marco V
Monti, Elena
Paoli, Antonio
Marcolin, Giuseppe
Physical active lifestyle promotes static and dynamic balance performance in young and older adults
title Physical active lifestyle promotes static and dynamic balance performance in young and older adults
title_full Physical active lifestyle promotes static and dynamic balance performance in young and older adults
title_fullStr Physical active lifestyle promotes static and dynamic balance performance in young and older adults
title_full_unstemmed Physical active lifestyle promotes static and dynamic balance performance in young and older adults
title_short Physical active lifestyle promotes static and dynamic balance performance in young and older adults
title_sort physical active lifestyle promotes static and dynamic balance performance in young and older adults
topic Physiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9428313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36060698
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.986881
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