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Dual-tasking can lead to falls, as does a deterioration of obstacle avoidance (OA) skills.
This required a statistical analysis in order to assess the groups solely on their gait characteristics during single-tasking and/or dual-tasking.
The decrement on gait while dual-tasking was significant when compared with single-tasking gait performance.
No significant effect of motor dual-tasking was seen when moving from single-task to motor dual-task conditions.
However, in contrast to cognitive dual-tasking, stroke patients and healthy controls employed different strategies during simultaneous performance of postural and motor tasks.
The traditionally separate researches on cognitive functions and basic coordinations such as stance and locomotion are coming together in the study of posture-cognition dual-tasking.
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In the past, it has been established that the effect of dual-tasking on gait velocity (dual- task decrement) is related to impairments in executive function and attention.
Indeed, everyday walking in complex environments utilizes executive function, dual tasking, planning and scanning, all while walking forward.
Dual tasking is defined as performing two tasks concurrently and has been shown to have a significant effect on attention directed to the performance of the main task.
The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of dual tasking on postural and cognitive performance between participants with and without nonspecific chronic low back pain.
Better understanding of the mechanism behind automatization may explain how automatization can contribute to complex cognitive performance such as dual tasking.
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