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The purpose of this study is comparing the postural control between practitioners and non-practitioners of Yoga. Four subjects (two practitioners of Yoga) performed quiet standing for 10 s, followed by Vriksasana (tree posture) for 45 s in an eight cameras, four force plate motion capture system. A whole-body OpenSim model was used to calculate by inverse kinematics the body center of mass (COM) and joint angles. The results showed that Yoga practitioners presented smaller and less variable center of pressure (COP) area, lumbar, hips, ankle and subtalar angles, which can be related to better postural control.
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Pinto, D.P., Sarmet, P., Pino, A.V., Menegaldo, L.L. (2019). Biomechanics of Postural Control in Yoga: A Pilot Study. In: Costa-Felix, R., Machado, J., Alvarenga, A. (eds) XXVI Brazilian Congress on Biomedical Engineering. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 70/1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2119-1_22
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