Bewegungs- und Trianingswissenschaft: New publication
Lorenz Assländer, Markus Gruber and Louis-Solal Giboin published an article titled „Reductions of body sway after one session of learning to counteract balance perturbations are related to changes in joint stiffness and body posture rather than prediction“.
We investigated adaptations in body sway to 75 repetitions of a predictable support surface tilt sequence. Our results provide no evidence for the contribution of hypothesized predictive mechanisms for such predictable sequences. Rather, similar changes in control measurements conducted pre and post to the learning intervention indicates that general adaptations in balance control can explain the observed changes. Specifically, the changes indicate that a more upright position and a reduction in stiffness may explain the body sway reductions across trials.