Biofeedback Systems for Postural Control
Biofeedback Systems for Human Postural Control
a method for understanding sensory integration and improving motor training
Dissetation submitted for the degree of Ph.D. in Bioengineering
Marco Dozza
Abstract
Keywords - Postural Control, Sensory Integration, Auditory-, Visual-, Tactile-Biofeedback, Accelerometry, Vestibular Loss, Motor Learning
Table of contents:
Chapter 1 - Sensory integration and augmentation for the control of posture
Chapter 2 - Audio-biofeedback for balance improvements: an accelerometry-based system
Chapter 3 - Influence of a portable audio-biofeedback device on structural properties of postural sway
Chapter 4 - Direction specificity of Audio-biofeedback for postural sway
Chapter 5 - Audio-biofeedback improves balance in patients with bilateral vestibular loss
Chapter 6 - Auditory biofeedback substitutes for loss of sensory information in maintaining stance
Chapter 7 - Effects of linear versus sigmoid codingof visual or audio biofeedback for the control of upright stance
Chapter 8 - Postural responses elicited by auditory-biofeedback of center of pressure during perturbed stance
Chapter 9 - Effects of practicing tandem gait with and without vibrotactile biofeedback in subjects with unilateral vestibular loss
Chapter 10 - Conclusions
