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Abstracts of the 5th International Posture Symposium








































Abstracts of the 5th International Posture Symposium

Smolenice Castle, Slovak Republic, September 3-6, 2008


Editor: Franti?ek Hlava?ka
Publisher: Institute of Normal and Pathological Physiology
Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Sienkiewiczova 1, 81371 Bratislava


ISBN 978 - 80 - 969993 - 1 - 6


Printed in Slovakia

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Institute of Normal and Pathological Physiology
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Bratislava, Slovakia


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International Organising Committee:

Franti?ek Hlava?ka, Slovakia
Lorenzo Chiari, Italy
James S Frank, Canada
Jeffrey Hausdorff, Israel
Fay B. Horak, USA





Local organising committee:

Hlava?ka Franti?ek - chairman
Abrahámová Diana
Valkovi? Peter




































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Slovak Academy of Sciences
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Insitute of Normal and Pathological Physiology, Slovak Academy of
Sciences
Sienkiewiczova 1, Bratislava
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FP6 EU Project
http://www.sensaction-aal.eu


Contents :

Scientific Program ....7


Abstracts 13

The age-related changes of Trunk responses to vibration of Achilles tendon
15

A WEARABLE SYSTEM FOR LONG-TERM MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OF DAILY PHYSICAL
ACTIVITY IN HEALTH AND DISEASE 16

Probing human vestibulo-motor responses using stochastic vestibular
stimulation 17

THE ROLE OF THE PEDUNCULOPONTINE NUCLEUS IN HUMAN BALANCE CONTROL 18

FEAR OF FALLING HAS A HIGHER INFLUENCE THAN OTHER GAIT DISORDERS ASPECTS
ON QUALITY OF LIFE MEASURES IN PATIENTS WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE 19

VESTIBULAR PROCESSING FOR BALANCE CONTROL IN CEREBELLAR DISEASE 20

Kinesthetic deficits may contribute to postural disorders in Parkinson's
disease 21

Effects of visual, audio and tongue tactile sensory substitution systems
for the control of buttock pressures in seated posture 22

Mixing sensing and action to support balance and independent mobility in
the elderly 23

Long-term Posturography by wearable accelerometers 24

Uniting the left and right vestibular signals for human balance 25

DIFFERENCES IN THE ISOMETRIC FORCE TRAJECTORY OF HEALTHY AND PARKINSONIAN
SUBJECTS 26

THE CENTRAL PRESSOR RESPONSE DURING STANDING 27

Ambient multiperceptive systems and multi-sensors fusion techniques for
the remote monitoring of older and/or disabled persons living at their
home 28

Attention AND Anxiety as Modulators of Postural Control 29

GAIT DYNAMICS IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS 30

Vestibular influences on spatial orientation and postural control 31

Training in patients with Parkinson's Disease:Symptom relief or neural
plasticity? 32

THE TIMED UP AND GO TEST: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE 33

Six Weeks Intensive Treadmill Training Improves Gait and Quality of Life
in Patients with Parkinson's Disease: A Pilot Study 34

EFFECTS OF A GAZE BEHAVIOUR INTERVENTION ON STEPPING ACCURACY IN OLDER
ADULTS DURING A VISUALLY GUIDED WALKING TASK 35

How has Posture Control Research Informed Rehabilitation? 36

CONSTRAINTS ON POSTURAL CONTROL IN PATIENTS WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE 37

A WEAK BALANCE: pathophysiology and management of falls in patients with
muscle weakness 38

Modular architecture for the control of human posture and locomotion 39

Vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials 40

SENSORY RE-WEIGHTING MECHANISMS PREDICT OBSERVED Changes in postural sway
remnant 41

QUANTIFYING THE DYNAMICAL STRUCTURE OF POSTURAL SWAY USING AN AMBULANT
ACCELEROMETER 42

Validation of a new method to classify locomotion and postures (of
physical activity?) in daily life with one sensor at the lower back 43

A model-based comparison of stance control deficits in Huntington's
disease vs. Parkinson's disease 44

Direction of force responses to stochastic vestibular stimulation 45

Bilateral Alternating Vibration of Postural Muscles Induces Body
OSCILLATIONS in Standing Parkinsonian Patients 46

MEASURING BALANCE IN QUIET STANCE WITH A FORCE PLATE AND A BODY FIXED
SENSOR 47

ASPECTS OF POSTURAL REACTIVITY IN TRANSTIBIAL AMPUTEES ASSESSED BY SURFACE
EMG AND DYNAMIC POSTUROGRAPHY 48

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for treatment of
gait disorders in Parkinson's disease 49

Voluntary control of standing sway 50

Enhancement OF Step Initiation WITH Posture Assisted Locomotion (PAL)
TRAINING IN Parkinson's disease 51

PERCEPTIONS AND ADAPTATION TO PROLONGED VESTIBULAR STIMULATION 52

ESTIMATION OF DYNAMIC STABILISATION OF VERTICAL BODY POSITION IN
DIAGNOSTICS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION 53

The relationship between anxiety, gaze behaviour AND stepping accuracy in
older adults during adaptive gait 54

THE EFFECT OF TASK-ORIENTED PROPRIOCEPTIVE TRAINING ON PARAMETERS OF
NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION 55

BIOFEEDBACK FOR TRAINING BALANCE AND MOBILITY IN OLDER PEOPLE: SYSTEMATIC
REVIEW 56

ACCELEROMETRY BASED DETECTION OF GAIT & POSTURES in older adults and
Parkinson's disease patients 57


Posters 59

Coordination of reorientation of different body segments during on-the-
spot turns and turns embedded in locomotion in healthy older adults 61

Postural Responses to Visual Stimulation in Fear of Falling Condition 62

INVESTIGATION EFFECT OF BETASERC UPON THE VESTIBULAR FUNCTION AND EYE
TRACKING FUNCTION USING COMPUTERIZED EQUIPMENT 63

The Dynamic Gait Index provides insight into stair climbing and fear of
falling in healthy elderly men and women 64

Assessment of postural stability in lower limb amputees within the
framework of modified visual information 65

IMPROVEMENT OF POSTURAL CONTROL IN PATIENTS AFTER STROKE - CONNECTING
RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTISE 66

Stance control in 'pure' Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP) 67

STABILOMETRIC DIAGNOSTICS OF EFFECTIVENES OF GIDDINESS TREATMENT BY
MONOTHERAPY BETASERC 68

Improving weight bearing asymmetry in unilateral lower limb amputees by
use of an insole pressure sensor-based electro-tactile biofeedback system
69


Index 73


Email Contacts 77

Scientific Program


Wednesday, September 3rd 2008

13:45 Meeting point in Bratislava, Fajnorovo nábre?ie
14:30 Transport by bus from Bratislava to Smolenice Castle
15:45 Registration and Accommodation in Smolenice Castle
16:15 - 17:30 Scientific and Management Board meeting of EU project
SensAction-AAL
17:45 Opening Address - Dr. O. Pechá?ová, DrSc., Director of
Institute
17:55 Opening Keynote Lecture: Prof. Fay Horak - Portland, USA
How has Posture Control Research Informed Rehabilitation?
18:40 End of Session
19:00 Welcome Reception



Thursday, September 4th 2008

7:00 - 8:00 Breakfast

WORKSHOP:
Home-based monitoring and treatment of falls and balance-related
impairments: the SensAction-AAL vision
Chairs: L. Chiari - Italy, R. Van Lummel - The Netherlands


Overview
8:00 L. Chiari - coordinator of EU FP6 project Sensaction-AAL, Italy
Mixing sensing and action to support balance and independent
mobility in the elderly
Tele Rehabilitation
8:30 A. Zijlstra - The Netherlands
Biofeedback for training balance and mobility in older people:
systematic review
8:45 J. Hausdorff - Israel
The timed up and go test: more than meets the eye
9:05 S. Nicolai - Germany
Measuring balance in quiet stance with a force plate and a body
fixed sensor
9:20 D. Abrahámová - Slovakia
The age-related changes of trunk responses to vibration of
Achilles tendon
9:35 T. Herman - Israel, E. Farella - Italy, P. Valkovi? - Slovakia
Practical demonstration of the output in Sensaction-AAL project
with PD patient
Tele Monitoring
10:00 R. Van Lummel - The Netherlands
One module based method to assess locomotion and postures in
daily life:
validation of the DynaPort® MoveMonitor®
Clinical trial
10:20 B. Pijls - The Netherlands
Remote wireless management of performance based tests

10:40 Coffee Break





Session 1: Long-Term, Wearable Monitoring Of Posture, Balance And Movement
Chair: K. Aminian - Switzerland

11:00 K. Aminian - Switzerland
A wearable system for long-term monitoring and analysis of daily
physical activity
in health and disease
11:30 L. Chiari - Italy
Long-term posturography by wearable accelerometers
11:50 A. Fleury - France
Ambient multiperceptive systems and multi-sensors fusion
techniques for the remote
monitoring of older and/or disabled persons living at their home
12:10 C J. C. Lamoth - The Netherlands
Quantifying the dynamical structure of postural sway using an
ambulant
accelerometer

12:30 Lunch


Session 2: Training Neurological Patient's Postural Control
Chair: J. Hausdorff, Israel

14:00 J. Hausdorff - Israel
Training in patients with Parkinson's disease: Symptom relief
or neural
plasticity?
14:30 A. Nardone - Italy
Bilateral alternating vibration of postural muscles induces
body oscillations
in standing parkinsonian patients
14:50 M.W. Rogers - USA
Enhancement of step initiation with posture assisted locomotion
(pal) training
in parkinson's disease
15:10 T. Herman - Israel