The Role of patellar movement and large change of heel pressure distribution during backward leaning posture in perception of backward standing position

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22500452
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: ASAI Hitoshi 金沢大学, 保健学系, 教授 (50167871)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): FUJIWARA Katsuo 金沢大学, 医学系, 教授 (60190089)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 立位位置知覚 / 膝蓋骨 / 踵圧分布 / 位置情報

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of the patellar movement and the large change of heel pressure distribution during backward leaning posture in perception of the backward standing position.
The patellar movement was examined in 2010 and 2011 among 26 and 9 subjects. The results led us to the following conclusions: the information coming from patellar movement is important for the body position perception during backward leaning position, and a light pressure to patellar upper region enhances the patellar movement perception.The large change of heel pressure distribution was examined in 2012 and 2013 among 9 and 15 subjects. The results suggested that the large change of the heel pressure distribution contributed providing perceptual information for the body position perception during backward leaning position, and an additional pressure to the heel was effective to improve the perception in cases of low perceptibility of backward leaning in standing position.

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