Neck pain has been considered a costly musculoskeletal problem, with impacts on health and quality of life of individuals may be related to repetitive strain and maintenance of postures. These changes cause mechanical and ...

Introduction: The increase in the elderly population in developing countries has raised concern about the quality of life and well-being of these people. Several changes occur in the elderly body with degenerative changes ...

Sensory information from visual, vestibular, and somatosensory systems plays an important role in postural control. Deficits in postural control performance are the primary cause of the increased number of falls during ...

Balance problems in hemiparetic patients after stroke can be caused by different impairments in the physiological systems involved in Postural control, including sensory afferents, movement strategies, biomechanical ...

The pregnancy is one of the biggest temporary changes that occurs in all systems of the feminine body in a short space time. In this study of case, it was analyzed the posture, the body composition and the balance (with ...

Objetivos: investigar se o treino dos músculos do assoalho pélvico modifica parâmetros do equilíbrio postural em mulheres idosas e se a contração dos músculos do assoalho pélvico interfere nos parâmetros do equilíbrio ...

. Children with haemophilia often bleed inside joints and muscles, which may impair postural adjustments. These postural adjustments are necessary to control postural balance during daily activities. The inability to quickly ...

Cerebral palsy (CP) describes a group of permanent disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal ...