data may have prevented us from detecting significant changes, suggesting that TMS studies require the inclusion of a greater number of participants. In conclusion, the present study showed that SES did not further increase the magnitude of skill acquisition and intermanual transfer, which was
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Somatosensory Electrical Stimulation Does Not Augment Motor Skill Acquisition and Intermanual Transfer in Healthy Young Adults—A Pilot Study
János Négyesi, Menno P. Veldman, Kelly M.M. Berghuis, Marie Javet, József Tihanyi, and Tibor Hortobágyi
Should Ballet Dancers Vary Postures and Underfoot Surfaces When Practicing Postural Balance?
Nili Steinberg, Gordon Waddington, Roger Adams, Janet Karin, and Oren Tirosh
inclusion in this study, participants had to be students who were participating in a full-time program of vocational dance training at the Australian Ballet School. Participants were excluded from the study if they were suffering from any current lower extremity or lower back injury. The study was approved
Improvements in Obstacle Clearance Parameters and Reaction Time Over a Series of Obstacles Revealed After Five Repeated Testing Sessions in Older Adults
Deborah A. Jehu, Yves Lajoie, and Nicole Paquet
; weight: 75.9 ± 11.8 kg; height: 172.2 ± 9.4 cm) were recruited for this study. Inclusion criteria consisted of older adults: (a) aged 60 years and older; (b) having no self-reported musculoskeletal, neurological, or sensory deficits that may affect balance; (c) taking no medications that may affect
Balance and Mobility Training With or Without Simultaneous Cognitive Training Reduces Attention Demand But Does Not Improve Obstacle Clearance in Older Adults
Deborah A.M. Jehu, Nicole Paquet, and Yves Lajoie
. Inclusion criteria consisted of (a) being 60 years of age and older; (b) having no self-reported musculoskeletal, neurological, or sensory deficits that may affect balance; (c) having normal or corrected to normal vision; (d) living independently in the community; (e) walking without an assistive device; (f
The Evaluation of Changes of Angles in Selected Joints During Topspin Forehand in Table Tennis
Ziemowit Bańkosz and Sławomir Winiarski
principles of performing table tennis strokes during training, the common technical element of which was movement coordination. Inclusion of individual body parts into the movement occurs in a coordinated manner at various times (with time shift). The phases and events that occur during a topspin stroke were
The Use of the Anchor System Reduces Postural Sway During Upright Standing Irrespective of Plantar Flexors Muscle Fatigue in Young and Older Adults
Andressa Busch Rocha Pereira and Renato Moraes
its possible clinical and therapeutic applications, and inclusion in physical training programs. The fact that the muscle fatigue was not influenced by the use of the anchors suggests that the anchors could be used with the same effectiveness at any moment of the training session, even at the end of a
The Role of Predictability of Perturbation in Control of Posture: A Scoping Review
Tippawan Kaewmanee and Alexander S. Aruin
/adjustment/modulation, sensory/sensation, vision/visual/sight, auditory/hearing, proprioceptive/proprioception/touch, olfactory/smell, and gustatory/taste. Inclusion Criteria Studies were included in the review if they met the following criteria: (a) Described adult populations (18 years or older) (b) Reported postural and
Response Time Modulates the Relationship Between Implicit Learning and Motor Ability in Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Preliminary Study
Jin Bo, Bo Shen, Liangsan Dong, YanLi Pang, Yu Xing, Mingting Zhang, Yuan Xiang, Patricia C. Lasutschinkow, and Dan Li
) were recruited from the largest autism rehabilitation center in Wuhan, China. The inclusion criteria were: (a) formal clinical diagnosis of ASD (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013 ), (b) confirmed with the Autism Diagnostic Interview—Revised (ADI-R; Rutter et al., 2003 ), (c
Effects of 4 Weeks of Variability of Practice Training in Padel Double Right Wall: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Carolina Gutiérrez-Álvarez, Joshua Colomar, Ernest Baiget, Santos Villafaina, and Juan Pedro Fuentes-García
). Therefore, in the present study, we aimed to induce variability in the practice using weighted wristbands. We hypothesized that the inclusion of these wristbands will alter the synergy level ( Bernstein et al., 2014 ) and, in consequence, it would increase the numbers of degrees of freedom during trainings
Freezing Degrees of Freedom During Motor Learning: A Systematic Review
Anderson Nascimento Guimarães, Herbert Ugrinowitsch, Juliana Bayeux Dascal, Alessandra Beggiato Porto, and Victor Hugo Alves Okazaki
coordination OR coordination changes Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria The inclusion criteria were as follows: (a) original studies about motor skills practice, (b) published in English, (c) participants aged between 16 and 50 years, and (d) studies that analyzed the practice effect on DF freezing ( Bernstein