Study of age-related changes in postural control during quiet standing through Linear Discriminant Analysis 英文参考文献.docVIP

BioMedical Engineering OnLine BioMedCentral Research Open Access Study of age-related changes in postural control during quiet standing through Linear Discriminant Analysis Guilherme L Cavalheiro, Maria Fernanda S Almeida, Adriano A Pereira and Adriano O Andrade* Address: Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Uberlandia, Campus Santa M?nica, Bloco 1E, Av. Jo?o Naves de ávila, 2121, Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, 38.408-100, Brazil Email: Guilherme L Cavalheiro - glcavalheiro@.br; Maria Fernanda S Almeida - nandasalmeida@.br; Adriano A Pereira - adriano@eletrica.ufu.br; Adriano O Andrade* - aoandrade@.br * Corresponding author Published: 18 November 2009 Received: 3 July 2009 Accepted: 18 November 2009 BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2009, 8:35 doi:10.1186/1475-925X-8-35 This article is available from: /content/8/1/35 ? 2009 Cavalheiro et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The human body adopts a number of strategies to maintain an upright position. The analysis of the human balance allows for the understanding and identification of such strategies. The displacement of the centre of pressure (COP) is a measure that has been successfully employed in studies regarding the postural control. Most of these investigations are related to the analysis of individuals suffering from neuromuscular disorders. Recent studies have shown that the elderly population is growing very fast in many countries all over the world, and therefore, researches that try to understand changes in this group are required. In this context, this study proposes the analysis of the postural control, measured by the displacement of the COP, in groups of