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September 5, 2025Frontiers in Bioengineering and BiotechnologyOpen Access

Effects of single-session perturbation-based balance training with progressive intensities on resilience and dynamic gait stability in healthy older adults

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RZRingo Tang-Long ZhuFSFriederike A. SchulteNSNavrag B. Singh

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Overview

Pilot study shows perturbation-based balance training improves dynamic stability in older adults, indicating effective balance control enhancement.

Key Points

  • Participants experienced significant improvements in minimum margin of stability immediately post-training, with increases observed both directly after and three months later.
  • Changes in peak instability were also notable, with a significant reduction seen post-intervention compared to baseline measurements.
  • Despite improvements in certain stability metrics, no significant changes were found in the number of recovery steps or recovery time across groups.
  • This training shows promise for enhancing balance control, although its effects on recovery speed remain inconclusive.

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Zhu et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68bb42212b87ece8dc958ad4https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2025.1642158
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