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platform

 [plat´form]
a flat horizontal surface higher than the level of the areas around it.
force platform a small platform that measures variations in downward force between different points on its surface, for assessing stability of stance and posture as a person stands on it. Called also force plate.

force plat·form

(fōrs plat'fōrm),
A device used to measure the strength, symmetry, and latency of compensatory postural movements when visual, vestibular, and somatosensory stimuli are varied.
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Force platform recordings in the diagnosis of primary orthostatic tremor.
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The posturogram signals were registered by means of the force platform MA-1 and analyzed using the customer designed software.
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A comparison of vertical force and temporal parameters produced by an in-shoe pressure measuring system and a force platform.
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Trials were excluded if participants used their arms or missed either force platform during landing, in which case additional trials were collected until 10 acceptable trials were available for analysis.
Asymmetrical loading demands associated with vertical jump landings in people with unilateral transtibial amputation
The static single leg stance test and the consecutive countermovement jump test were performed on a force platform (BP600900; Advance Mechanical Technology Inc.
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Now, in a report that has appeared in the journal Gait and Posture, Clark's team has confirmed that the board's data is clinically comparable to that of a force platform.
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The most accessible and common method of detection of the sway parameters is the measurement of the position of the centre of pressure (COP) using the force platform.
Posturographic study of the human body vibrations for clinical diagnostics of the spine and joint pathology/Zmogaus kuno virpesiu posturografinis tyrimas stuburo ir sanariu patologijoms diagnozuoti
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