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1. Balance is often taken for granted Having intact balance control is essential for maintaining postural stability and ensuring safe mobility during daily activities, such as weight shifting, changing position while performing manual tasks, walking, or climbing stairs (Mancini & Horak, 2010). When balance is impaired, even simple actions, like walking across a gravel driveway, transitioning from sidewalk to grass, or getting out of bed in the middle of the night, can become

1. The science behind Both platforms measure different biomechanical characteristics. However, it’s easy to get pressure confused with force, and vice-versa: The pressure platform measures the plantar pressure distribution, obtaining the plantar pressure map, similar to a heatmap of the foot. The force platform measures the magnitude and direction of the resulting force, independent of the contact area, obtaining the resulting vector from the ground reacti

1. Balance Mechanisms & Vestibular Disorders Balance is the ability to maintain the body’s center of mass over its base of support. Balance is achieved and maintained by a complex set of sensorimotor control systems (Figure 1 – left) that include sensory input from vision (sight), proprioception (touch), and the vestibular system (motion, equilibrium, spatial orientation); integration of that sensory input; and motor output to the eye and body muscles [1]. When any of these s

What is it? Static analysis , also known as baropodometry , is the study of the pressure that acts between the plantar surface of the foot and the support surface in a static position. The term borapodometry is derived from Latin: BARO = PRESSURE               PODO = FEET               METRY = MEASURE Therefore, baropodometry is the measurement of plantar pressures, allowing an evaluation of the plantar pressure distribution and also of the center of pressure (CoP), which c