A new measure of the CoP trajectory in postural sway: Dynamics of heading change |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Kinesiology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA;2. Division of Sports Medicine, Cincinnati Children''s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA;3. Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA;4. Center for Cognition, Action & Perception, Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA;5. Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA;6. Biomedical Research Department, Navy Experimental Diving Unit, Panama City, FL, USA;1. Professional Dance School of Castilla y León, Burgos, Spain;2. Sport Research Centre, Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Elche, Spain;1. Department of Kinesiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA;2. Department of Neurology, Pennsylvania State University-Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA 17033, USA;3. Department of Pharmacology, Pennsylvania State University-Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA 17033, USA;4. Department of Radiology, Pennsylvania State University-Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA 17033, USA;5. Department of Neurosurgery, Pennsylvania State University-Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA 17033, USA;1. Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, United States;2. Department of Kinesiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, United States;3. Department of Kinesiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, United States;1. Motor Control Laboratory, Movement Control and Neuroplasticity Research Group, KU Leuven, Tervuurse vest 101, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium;2. Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, KU Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium;3. Leuven Research Institute for Neuroscience & Disease, KU Leuven, Belgium |
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| Abstract: | The maintenance of upright stance requires the simultaneous control of posture in both the anterior–posterior (AP) and medial–lateral (ML) dimensions. Postural sway is typically measured by quantifying the movement of the center of pressure (CoP) in the AP and ML dimensions independently. Metrics such as path length and 95% ellipse area have been developed to take into account movement in both the AP and ML directions, but these metrics only quantify the magnitude of the CoP movement. The movement of the CoP is technically a vector quantity with both magnitude and direction characteristics. The direction of displacement, or heading, of the CoP may provide further insight into the control of posture. Accordingly, we present a novel variable that describes the rate of change in direction of CoP displacement in two dimensions, the heading change (Δϕ), which is derived from the CoP heading (ϕ). We then compared the standard deviation (SD) and the dynamic structure characterized by sample entropy (SampEn) of the heading change time series to previously examined metrics presented in the literature (SD and SampEn of the AP and ML time series, path length, SD and SampEn of the CoP resultant magnitude time series) during a 60 s single-leg stance performed by healthy participants and patients with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) prior to surgical intervention. Patients with an ACL rupture exhibited a different dynamic structure in Δϕ compared to healthy controls, t(14) = 2.44, p = 0.029, whereas none of the other metrics differed between groups (all p > 0.05). The novelty and utility of Δϕ is that it characterizes directional changes of the CoP, whereas previously documented postural control analyses describe only changes in magnitude. |
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| Keywords: | Posture Dynamics Sample entropy Balance |
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