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Age Effects on Multi-muscle Modes during Voluntary Body Sway
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- Yun Wang
- Tianjin Key Lab of Exercise Physiology and Sports Medicine, Department of Health and Exercise Science, Tianjin University of Sport, Hexi District, Tianjin, China
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- Kazuhiko Watanabe
- Institute of Sports and Health Science, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
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- Tadayoshi Asaka
- Department of Rehabilitation Science, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Description
The aim of this article was to explore age-related differences in the muscle modes (M-modes) during voluntary body sway (VS). M-modes were defined as trunk and leg muscles organized into groups with parallel scaling of muscle activation level within a group. We hypothesized that, in comparison with young performers, older adults would show changes in the compositions of M-modes stabilizing the anterior-posterior (AP) center of pressure (COP) displacement. Young (27.5 ± 7.3 yr, 164.6 ± 9.7 cm and 58.4 ± 10.6 kg) and older (69.4 ± 6.4 yr, 160.0 ± 7.0 cm and 58.9 ± 7.5 kg) subjects performed the VS task in the AP direction while trying to minimize sway in the medio-lateral direction. EMG signals of 10 postural muscles were recorded and analyzed. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to identify three M-modes within the space of integrated indices of muscle activity. The main findings were (1) that there were no age-related differences in magnitude of the COP displacement or amount of variance explained by the principal components (m-modes), and (2) that the number of times co-contraction and mixed m-modes were used were significantly higher for older adults, and the number of times reciprocal m-modes were used were significantly higher for young adults. These observations suggest that aging is associated with a reduced ability to unite dorsal and ventral muscles of the body, which may be reflective of the CNS developing a useful strategy when faced with self-triggered perturbations.
Journal
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- Research in Sports Medicine
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Research in Sports Medicine 23 (1), 88-101, 2015-01-02
Informa UK Limited
