Abstract
Kejonen P, Kauranen K, Vanharanta H. The relationship between anthropometric factors and body-balancing movements in postural balance. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2003;84:17-22. Objective: To evaluate the relationship between anthropometric characteristics and body-balancing movements when standing on 2 legs with eyes open and eyes closed. Design: Cross-sectional. Setting: A university physiatry laboratory. Participants: One hundred randomly selected subjects (50 men, 50 women; age range, 31[ndash ]80y). Interventions: Not applicable. Main Outcome Measures: Anthropomorphic: body height, weight, lower-extremity distances, foot lengths, and widest widths of the forefeet and heels. Body movements: 2-legged stance with eyes open and eyes closed, measured with the MacReflex Motion Capture System and calculated as maximal and total movements in 3 dimensions. The relation between the measured anthropometric characteristics and body-balancing movements was calculated by using regression analysis. Results: In the eyes-open condition, maximal lateral knee movement was related to body height and foot length ( R 2=.065, P[lt ].05). Both anteroposterior (AP) head movement ( R 2=.068, P[lt ].05) and AP navel movement ( R 2=.083, P[lt ].05) were related to heel width. AP knee movement was related to foot length and heel width ( R 2=.089, P[lt ].05). Body mass index was related to AP ankle movement ( R 2=.074, P[lt ].05) and to vertical ankle movement ( R 2=.063, P[lt ].05). In the eyes-closed condition, body mass index was related to the vertical navel movement ( R 2=.059, P[lt ].05) and body height to AP knee movement ( R 2=.041, P[lt ].05). Conclusion: The levels of significance are not high but warrant attention. It seems that there was no single anthropometric factor that explained the variations in body-balancing movements during standing. [copy ] 2003 by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
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