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Why Functional Decrements are
Reality among Elderly?
Amitesh Narayan
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Force Control and Regulation
• Force control is an elementary
component of movement production
because smooth and accuratemovements require efficient
modulation of force outputs.
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Force Control and Regulation
• Changes in the regulation of force outputs lead to
decrements in the initiation and control of
movements.
• Olders compared to young adults have decreasedforce outputs and inefficient force regulation making
it difficult to initiate and execute movements quickly
and accurately across a variety of tasks (Brown, 1996; Campbell, McComas,
and Petito, 1973; Clamann, 1993; Cooke et al., 1989; Darling et al., 1989; Davies and White, 1983; Doherty, Vandervoort, and Brown,1993; Galganski et al., 1993; Izquierdo, Aguado, Gonzalez, Lopez, and Hakkinen, 1999; Larsson and Karlsson, 1978; Milner-Brown,
Stein, and Yemm, 1973; Milner, Cloutier, Leger, and Franklin, 1995; Roos, Rice, Connelly, and Vandervoort, 1999; Singh et al., 1999;
Stelmach, Teasdale, Phillips, and Worringham, 1989).
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Force Control and Regulation
• Stelmach and colleagues (1989), using an isometric
task , demonstrated that older adults have reduced
range of force production and higher force output
variability compared with young adults.
• Rate of force production slows down substantially
{20 ms longer to achieve a force level 45 percent of
their maximum (15 N)}.
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Force Control and Regulation
• Ng and Kent-Braun (1999) documented
similar findings with older adults.
• They reported 60-N lower peak force output in
older adults compared to young adults and a
20-ms-longer time for force production.
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Force Control and Regulation
• Elderly produces multiple bursts of force in tasks_ to
achieve targeted force levels (approaching maximum).Kinoshita and Francis, 1996; Brown, 1996; Galganski et al., 1993.
• In contrast to above, young adults_ produces single
burst to the targeted force level.
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Functional Implications
• All these changes are small and happenings over short
periods.
• These changes may be a result of_ motor unit
reorganization and muscle composition changes
• But , they do suggest a reason why control andcoordination change with advanced age.
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Functional Implications_ Examples
• Changes in force regulation and control have largeimplications for most functional tasks.
• Turning a door knob or
•
Picking up a glass of liquid.• Tying shoe lace
• Eating with spoon
• Tying Button of shirt
• Stirring spoon in cup to mix sugar
• Climbing steps
• Playing with grand children ball game
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Coordination_ Definition
• Coordination is the ability to control a
number of movement segments or body
parts in a refined manner resulting in a
well-timed motor output.
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Coordination_ With advancing age
• Ability to control multiple movement components at
any particular time becomes increasingly difficult
across variety of movements.
• E.G: Aiming, Reaching and Grasping, Drawing,
Handwriting, and Bimanual coordination tasks(Bennett and Castiello, 1994; Carnahan et al., 1998; Teulings and Stelmach, 1993; Greene and Williams, 1996; Swinnen et al., 1998;
Wishart et al., 2000; Ketcham et al., 2001).
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Coordination_ With advancing age
• In reach-to-grasp tasks, components involved are:
a. Transport, and
b. Grasp components
Both must be coordinated both spatially and
temporally.
• Researchers found that older adults exhibit unstable
temporal coupling between these components (Bennett and
Castiello, 1994; Carnahan et al., 1998).
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Coordination_ With advancing age
• Conversely, tasks like drawing or handwriting require
subjects to control multiple joints in a linked segment
(require more regulation at fast movement speeds) (Teulings and
Stelmach, 1993; Ketcham et al., 2001).
•Ketcham and colleagues (2001) found that in a cyclical drawingtask older adults begin to distort their movements at 2.0
Hz (two cycles per second) compared with young adults
who begin distortions at 2.5 Hz.
• Reason_ older adults are unable to accurately control the
passive properties of linked segments, resulting in slower and
more variable movements.
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Coordination_ With advancing age
• Seidler and colleagues (2002) found that aiming movements away
from the body (that required shoulder and elbow
participation), became less smooth and decoupled as
shoulder contribution increased.
• Young adults tended to increase activity of opposing
muscles as shoulder involvement increases, while
older adults coactivates these muscles at high levels
during single joint elbow movements and reduced
coactivation as shoulder involvement increases.
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Bimanual coordination
• In these tasks subjects are asked to produce samemovement with left and right limbs.
• These movements are typically either
a. In_phase, where two limbs move in the same anatomicaldirection (homologous muscles activated together), or
b. Antiphase, where two limbs move in the same absolutedirection (homologous muscles activated at 180-degree
offset or opposite of each other).
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Bimanual coordination_ With advancing age
• Older adults tend to have difficulty maintaining more
complicated antiphase movements as movement
speeds increase (Swinnen et al., 1998; Greene and Williams, 1996; Wishart et al., 2000).
• Older adults are less accurate at movement speeds of
1.5 and 2.0 Hz compared with young adults, with
absolute errors on the order of 20 degrees of relative
phase offset.
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Bimanual coordination_ With advancing age
• Older adults have increased difficulty controlling and
regulating multiple segments to produce smooth
motor outputs.
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Bimanual coordination_ With advancing age
• Coordination is a part of most tasks of daily livingand therefore it is essential to understand breakdowns
in control and regulation.
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Proprioception_ With advancing age
• Reduced ability in older adults to accurately detect
movement or localize a body segment position makes it
difficult to produce rapid, well-coordinated movements.
• Major functional implications for older adults in a
variety of tasks of daily living,
a. Sitting in a chairb. Reaching for an object.
• Older adults tends to underestimate their joint angle.
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Muscle Activation Patterns_ Normal
•
For most movements, the underlying muscle activation patternsare organized in a triphasic pattern consisting of
a. 2 bursts of agonist muscle activity separated by,
b. 1 single burst of antagonistic muscle activity
Berardelli et al., 1996.
• This triphasic pattern of muscle activity produces a smooth
trajectory of a body segment from one position to another,
a. with the first agonist burst initiating the movement, overcominginertial forces; then
b. the subsequent two bursts decelerate or brake the movement of
the limb to the desired position Berardelli et al., 1996; Brown, 1996; Buneo, Soechting, and Flanders,
1994; Darling et al., 1989.
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Muscle Activation Patterns_ Elderly
• Research indicates that older adults do not tightly couple the
triphasic agonist-antagonist-agonist activation pattern as
young adults do.
• Timing of triphasic muscle activity is highly variable, without a
clear alternating pattern of agonist-antagonist activation.
• Antagonist burst is not well defined and occurs abnormally earlyDarling et al., 1989.
• Consequently, older adults often produce movements that have
prolonged deceleration patterns or periods of braking of the
movement Berardelli et al., 1996; Brown, 1996; Seidler-Dobrin et al., 1998; Darling et al., 1989.
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Muscle Composition and Muscle Activation
Patterns_ with advancing age
• Number and size of muscle fibers decrease in older
adults
• Most substantial decrease_ happens in fast-twitchfibers (which can be activated quickly for large force
outputs, but are unable to sustain force output for
long periods of time) Yamada, Masuda, and Okada, 2002.
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Muscle Composition and Muscle Activation
Patterns_ with advancing age
• Among elderly type II (fast-twitch) muscle fibers decrease by
approximately 40 % , whereas slow-twitch muscle fibers stay
relatively stable across the life span Aniansson, Hedberg, Henning, and Grimby, 1986; Lexell,
1993; Singh et al., 1999; Yamada et al., 2002.
• In elderly, activation of muscle is more bursty and less
smooth compare to young adults, causing force outputs of
large incremental steps Brown, 1972; McComas, Fawcett, Campbell, and Sica, 1971; Roos et al., 1997, 1999.
• Contractile speed of muscles in older adults is slower than in
young adults, which also influences the ability to ramp forces
in any given muscle Davies and White, 1983; Larsson, Li, and Frontera, 1997; Ng and Kent-Braun, 1999; Roos
et al., 1997.
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Joint Flexibility Changes
• With advanced age, the length of muscles around the
joints is reduced due to reduced flexibility of joint
structures (changes in hydration and microstructure of
collagen within the joint) Nonaka et al., 2002; Wachtel, Maroudas, and Schneiderman, 1995; Bailey
and Mansell, 1997; Wachtel et al.,1995.
• Loss of cartilage surface and chemical characteristic
changes_ Osteoarthritis development Laver-Rubich and Silbermann, 1985;
Beaupre, Stevens, and Carter, 2000; Bernick and Cailliet, 1982.
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Joint Flexibility Changes_ Functional Implications
• Decreased flexibility has implications for tasks of
daily living
a. Putting on socks or stockings,
b. Safely pulling out into traffic,
c. Picking up a dropped object,Gehlsen and Whaley, 1990; Nonaka et al., 2002; Shepard et al., 1990; Spirduso, 1995).
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