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Locomotor Sensory Organization Test: A Novel Paradigm For The Assessment Of Sensory Contributions In Gait, Jung Hung Chien, Diderik-Jan Eikema, Mukul Mukherjee, Nicholas Stergiou

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Feedback based balance control requires the integration of visual, proprioceptive and vestibular input to detect the body’s movement within the environment. When the accuracy of sensory signals is compromised, the system reorganizes the relative contributions through a process of sensory recalibration, for upright postural stability to be maintained. Whereas this process has been studied extensively in standing using the Sensory Organization Test (SOT), less is known about these processes in more dynamic tasks such as locomotion. In the present study, ten healthy young adults performed the six conditions of the traditional SOT to quantify standing postural control when exposed to …