Wearable technology mediated biofeedback to modulate spine motor control: a scoping review.

Background: Lower back pain (LBP) is a disability that affects a large proportion of the population and treatment for this condition has been shifting towards a more individualized, patient-centered approach. There has been a recent uptake in the utilization and implementation of wearable sensors that can administer biofeedback in various industrial, clinical, and performance-based settings. Despite this, there is a strong need to investigate how wearable sensors can be used in a sensorimotor (re)training approach, including how sensory biofeedback from wearable sensors can be used to improve measures of spinal motor control and proprioception.

Think about it: Cognitive-motor dual-tasking affects sub-regional spine responses to unexpected trunk perturbations.

Cognitive motor interference (CMI) is a psychomotor phenomenon characterized by alterations in kinematic spatial-temporal parameters during concurrent cognitive and motor tasks (i.e. dual-tasking).

Brace yourself: How abdominal bracing affects intersegmental lumbar spine kinematics in response to sudden loading.

Abdominal bracing is a voluntary method of increasing spine stiffness to restrict spine displacement. Previous investigations of abdominal bracing have measured effects on whole lumbar motion; however, how this effect is distributed across the lumbar spine is unknown. Therefore, this study was designed to test the influence of abdominal bracing on spine intersegmental (T9/T10 to L5/S1) flexion, measured via skin surface markers, in response to sudden loading perturbations applied through the hands in 16 young healthy participants.