The magnitude of the effect of calf muscles fatigue on postural control during bipedal quiet standing with vision depends on the eye-visual target distance

dc.creatorVuillerme, Nicolas
dc.creatorBurdet, Cyril
dc.creatorIsableu, Brice
dc.creatorDemetz, Sylvain
dc.date2008-02-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:20:34Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:20:34Z
dc.descriptionThe purpose of the present experiment was to investigate whether, with vision, the magnitude of the effect of calf muscles fatigue on postural control during bipedal quiet standing depends on the eye-visual target distance. Twelve young university students were asked to stand upright as immobile as possible in three visual conditions (No vision, Vision 1m and Vision 4m) executed in two conditions of No fatigue and Fatigue of the calf muscles. Centre of foot pressure displacements were recorded using a force platform. Similar increased variances of the centre of foot pressure displacements were observed in the fatigue relative to the No fatigue condition for both the No vision and Vision 4m conditions. Interestingly, in the vision 1m condition, fatigue yielded: (1) a similar increased variance of the centre of foot pressure displacements to those observed in the No vision and Vision 4m conditions along the medio-lateral axis and (2) a weaker destabilising effect relative to the No vision and Vision 4m conditions along the antero-posterior axis. These results evidence that the ability to use visual information for postural control during bipedal quiet standing following calf muscles fatigue is dependent on the eye-visual target distance. More largely, in the context of the multisensory control of balance, the present findings suggest that the efficiency of the sensory reweighting of visual sensory cues as the neuro-muscular constraints acting on the subject change is critically linked with the quality of the information the visual system obtains.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1904
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1904
dc.identifierGait & Posture / Gait and Posture 24, 2 (2006) 169-72
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.gaitpost.2005.07.011
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/154761
dc.subjectNeurons and Cognition
dc.titleThe magnitude of the effect of calf muscles fatigue on postural control during bipedal quiet standing with vision depends on the eye-visual target distance
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