Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference Advanced Engineering and Technology Research (AETR 2017)

Loading Posture Control in Anterior and Posterior Positions Using SEBT

Authors
Huiyu Zhou, Siqin Shen, Yaodong Gu
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Available Online March 2018.
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10.2991/aetr-17.2018.27How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Balance; Anterior position; Posterior position; Star Excursion Balance Test; Normalized excursion distance
Abstract

Objective: The Star Excursion Balance Test (SEBT) is a valid method to measure dynamic balance. Load carriage in anterior and posterior positions would have different balance control ability. Methods: Twenty healthy young males were volunteered to this experiment and performed SEBT with load carriage in anterior and posterior positions in 0%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% body weight loads. Vicon system and MATLAB software were used to calculate the result of SEBT. ICC and One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) with repeated measures analysed the variation tendency and one-way ANOVA analysed the differences between each condition. Results: The normalized excursion distance (%) has decreasing trends with the increase of loads no matter anterior or posterior positions. Load carriage would cause balance disturbances. However, posterior position shows significant decreasing trends while anterior position shows modest decreasing trends. In addition, anterior positions show larger results of SEBT than posterior positions among almost all the conditions. It indicated that anterior positions have higher balance control ability than posterior positions. Conclusion: From the Cyto Scape-web which is used to show the differences between each weight of loads, 0% and 5% loads indicate significant differences compare with other loads in posterior position. On the other hand, 0% and 20% loads show significant differences in anterior position. It observed that above 5% loads were affect balance control ability for load carriage in posterior position and below 20% loads was the avoidable weight to anterior position. This study provides new measure to test the dynamic balance during load carriage. Load carriage would cause injury due to overbalance, anterior position has higher risk than posterior position.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference Advanced Engineering and Technology Research (AETR 2017)
Series
Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date
March 2018
ISBN
10.2991/aetr-17.2018.27
ISSN
2352-5401
DOI
10.2991/aetr-17.2018.27How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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