Immediate Beneficial Effects of Mental Rotation Using Foot Stimuli on Upright Postural Stability in Healthy Participants
Joint Authors
Higuchi, Takahiro
Kawasaki, Tsubasa
Source
Rehabilitation Research and Practice
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-12-26
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The present study was designed to investigate whether an intervention during which participants were involved in mental rotation (MR) of a foot stimulus would have immediate beneficial effects on postural stability (Experiment 1) and to confirm whether it was the involvement of MR of the foot, rather than simply viewing foot stimuli, that could improve postural stability (Experiment 2).
Two different groups of participants (n=16 in each group) performed MR intervention of foot stimuli in each of the two experiments.
Pre- and postmeasurements of postural stability during unipedal and bipedal standing were made using a force plate for the intervention.
Consistently, postural sway values for unipedal standing, but not for bipedal standing, were decreased immediately after the MR intervention using the foot stimuli.
Such beneficial effects were not observed after the MR intervention using car stimuli (Experiment 1) or when participants observed the same foot stimuli during a simple reaction task (Experiment 2).
These findings suggest that the MR intervention using the foot stimuli could contribute to improving postural stability, at least when it was measured immediately after the intervention, under a challenging standing condition (i.e., unipedal standing).
American Psychological Association (APA)
Kawasaki, Tsubasa& Higuchi, Takahiro. 2013. Immediate Beneficial Effects of Mental Rotation Using Foot Stimuli on Upright Postural Stability in Healthy Participants. Rehabilitation Research and Practice،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-505786
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Kawasaki, Tsubasa& Higuchi, Takahiro. Immediate Beneficial Effects of Mental Rotation Using Foot Stimuli on Upright Postural Stability in Healthy Participants. Rehabilitation Research and Practice No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-505786
American Medical Association (AMA)
Kawasaki, Tsubasa& Higuchi, Takahiro. Immediate Beneficial Effects of Mental Rotation Using Foot Stimuli on Upright Postural Stability in Healthy Participants. Rehabilitation Research and Practice. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-505786
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-505786