title: [Effects of unilateral fatigue of triceps surae on undisturbed stance].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Fatigue of lower limb presents various impacts on postural control. The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of a unilateral lower-limb muscle fatigue on undisturbed stance.
  
  
  METHODS
  Nine healthy men performed until exhaustion a fatiguing exercise of the limb extensor muscles of one leg (exercised leg). Just before and after the fatiguing exercise, postural sway measures (centre of pressure) were recorded simultaneously from a double force platform and an in-shoe pressure system in quiet standing conditions. Maximal plantar pressure was computed from each sensor of the in-shoe system, before being averaged for the medial and lateral heel, the external mid-foot, the external and internal foreparts.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In undisturbed stance, the fatiguing exercise induced postural destabilisation for the non-exercised leg (P < 0.001). Changes in antero-posterior mean position of the exercised leg were also observed reflecting a mean loading in a more rear foot stance (P < 0.01). The in-shoe system parameters revealed for the exercised foot, an increase of the maximal pressure value for the heel region (P < 0.05) and a decrease for the mid-foot and forepart (P < 0.05). For the non-exercised foot, the maximal pressure decreased only in forepart (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Unilateral triceps surae fatigue revealed an immediate destabilisation of undisturbed stance and the observed postural strategy appears similar to these developed by patients who presented pain pathology and/or sensory deficits in lower limb.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de physiologie de l'exercice, domaine universitaire du Bourget du Lac, université de Savoie, 73376 Le-Bourget-du-Lac cedex, France. laetitia.berger@univ-savoie.fr
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Berger
authors.forename: S-C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Regueme
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Forestier
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg; D008297:Male; D018763:Muscle Fatigue / Q000502:physiology*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000502:physiology*; D011187:Posture; D055815:Young Adult