Balance task difficulty affects postural sway and cortical activity in healthy adolescents
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Balance task difficulty affects postural sway and cortical activity in healthy adolescents Arnd Gebel1 · Tim Lehmann2 · Urs Granacher1 Received: 21 November 2019 / Accepted: 11 April 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
Abstract Electroencephalographic (EEG) research indicates changes in adults’ low frequency bands of frontoparietal brain areas executing different balance tasks with increasing postural demands. However, this issue is unsolved for adolescents when performing the same balance task with increasing difficulty. Therefore, we examined the effects of a progressively increasing balance task difficulty on balance performance and brain activity in adolescents. Thirteen healthy adolescents aged 16–17 year performed tests in bipedal upright stance on a balance board with six progressively increasing levels of task difficulty. Postural sway and cortical activity were recorded simultaneously using a pressure sensitive measuring system and EEG. The power spectrum was analyzed for theta (4–7 Hz) and alpha-2 (10–12 Hz) frequency bands in pre-defined frontal, central, and parietal clusters of electrocortical sources. Repeated measures analysis of variance (rmANOVA) showed a significant main effect of task difficulty for postural sway (p
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