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Effect of manipulation of the feet and ankles on postural control in elderly adults.
Vaillant J, Vuillerme N, Janvey A, Louis F, Braujou R, Juvin R, Nougier V. Brain Res Bull. 2008 Jan 31;75(1):18-22.
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The purpose of the present experiment was to investigate the effect of a therapeutic manipulation of the feet and ankles on postural control during quiet standing in elderly adults. Seventeen elderly adults stood barefeet on a force platform and were asked to sway as little as possible. Within a trial, vision was suppressed by eyes closure. The task was executed in two experimental sessions: before and after a therapeutic manipulation of the feet and ankles. Centre of feet pressure (COP) displacements along the mediolateral (ML) and anteroposterior (AP) axes were recorded. For the two experimental sessions, subjects exhibited comparable COP displacements when vision was available and were similarly affected by the suppression of vision. However, when subjects had to adapt to the absence of vision within a 10s temporal frame, postural behaviour became different in the two experimental sessions: the sum of the ML and AP COP displacements increased within the 10s temporal frame before the therapeutic manipulation of the feet and ankles, whereas it remained unchanged after it. These results suggested that the therapeutic manipulation of the feet and ankles allows the elderly adults to partially compensate for the destabilising effect induced by the suppression of vision.
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Effect of manipulation of the feet and ankles on postural control in elderly adults.
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Well, now I can suggest to my patients that they will be more steady in the dark after foot and ankle manipulation!
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Why doesn't anyone else take this seriously? See I think this is an interesting study. When I was a youngster, I wanted to be a geriatric nurse. I didnt fullfill that dream but I did become a Pod interested in aged care. In my first job post TAFE I was sent to a nursing home. I went home and cried myself to sleep. I did however listen to a massage therapist who told me that before therapy to this particular gentleman , he was non responsive. Now after therapy from the massage lady he had showed signs of activity.
Cheers Lorraine
Re: Effect of manipulation of the feet and ankles on postural control in elderly adults
Hi Lorraine not sure why you assume "no one else takes this seriously" are you tallking about manipulation? That is certainly taken seriously, check out the many threads and you will find pods manipulating feet all over the world, did you mean this particular paper?
Perhaps you need to be a little more specific, the paper or manipulation.
I have not read that paper to date.
Cheers
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