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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 cor