title: The dominant foot affects the postural control mechanism: examination by body tracking test.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  The antero-posterior (AP) body tracking test (BTT) showed that the dominant foot could affect the tilt angle of the sway movement, delineated by primary component analysis. Differences associated with the dominant foot could represent the difference in space perception of each person.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To examine whether the dominant foot could affect the postural control mechanism using the BTT.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ninety-seven healthy participants enrolled in the study were classified into right-foot and left-foot dominance groups, and their performances were compared. For the BTT, each participant stood on a stabilometer and caught the movement of a visual target moving vertically (anterior-posterior) or horizontally by the center of pressure movement, displayed on a 14-inch screen monitor at 100 cm in front of the subject. The mean displacement angle of the obtained stabilogram was evaluated by principal component analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The AP BTT in the right-foot dominance group showed a clockwise tilt with a mean displacement angle of 3.022 ± 3.761°, whereas the group with left-foot dominance had a modest counter-clockwise tilt with a mean displacement angle of -0.694 ± 4.497°. This difference was found to be significant by the independent t test (p < 0.0001). In the lateral BTT, the mean displacement angles were not significant.
authors.affiliation: Department Otorhinolaryngology, Toho University , Sakura City, Chiba , Japan.
authors.forename: Tomoe
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: Fuyuko
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ikemiyagi
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ikemiyagi
authors.forename: Tositake
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Masahiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Mitsuya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suzuki
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005528:Foot; D007839:Functional Laterality; D064368:Healthy Volunteers; D006801:Humans; D004856:Postural Balance; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Dynamic body balance test; axis; moving visual target; spatial perception