Impact of age on the postural stability measured by a virtual reality tracker-based posturography and a pressure platform system

Author:

Liang Huey-Wen,Chi Shao-Yu,Tai Tzu-Ling,Li Yue-Hua,Hwang Yaw-Huei

Abstract

Abstract Background Center of pressure (CoP) parameters are commonly used to evaluate age-related changes in postural control during standing. However, they mainly reflect ankle strategies and provide limited information about hip strategies, which are essential for postural control among the aged population. Body displacement at the lumbar level (LD) can be used as a proxy for hip strategies. Objectives We set up a virtual reality tracker-based posturography to measure LD and compared the CoP and LD parameters in two age groups to explore the roles of ankle and hip strategies during bipedal stance. Methods Twenty-seven older healthy participants (63.8 ± 7.1 years old) and 27 younger controls (31.7 ± 9.9 years old) performed four standing tasks with their postural steadiness measured simultaneously with both systems under four stance conditions (combination of eyes-open/eyes-closed and wide-based/narrow-based). Five parameters were calculated from the trajectories of the CoP and LD. The difference in the parameters between two groups was analyzed with the Mann–Whitney U test. The discriminative ability of the parameters from the two systems was computed by the receiver operating characteristic curve analysis and area under the curve (AUC). We also used the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) to assess the correlation between two measures. Results Most of the parameters obtained from both systems were significantly different between the younger and older groups. Mean velocity in the medial–lateral and anterior–posterior directions could effectively discriminate age-related changes, especially with the LD parameters. The receiver’s operation curve analysis gained the largest AUC (0.85 with both systems) with mean velocity in the medial–lateral direction during narrow-based standing with eyes closed. Meanwhile, we observed a low correlation between parameters obtained from the two methods in velocity measures, with the lowest ICC in the mean velocity in the medial–lateral direction in the older group (ICC = 0.34 ~ 0.41). Conclusion Both systems could differentiate age-related changes in postural steadiness, but with dissociated information about mean velocity, especially the mean velocity in the medial–lateral direction in the older group. The results support the complimentary role of using tracker-based posturography to understand the effect of age on the mechanisms of postural control.

Funder

National Taiwan University Hospital

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Geriatrics and Gerontology

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