PWR-028 · Mobility, Balance & Locomotion

Reactive balance

People can learn to recover better from controlled slips and trips. That does not make unsupervised perturbation practice safe or prove fewer real-life falls.

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Canonical Power learning unit · TLU-PWR-028

The learner completes a provider-set series of protected perturbations and records recovery steps, harness catches, rail use and symptoms for each trial.

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PWR-028 · Reactive balance
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Current treatment
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Research depth
focused · 2 bound sources
Risk framing
high
Capability self-practice
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Pathway membership
G-CUR-003

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Explanation is not permission.

This dossier explains the evidence and its limits. It is not a diagnosis, personal recommendation, assessment, clearance, performance promise or training programme. Actionable teaching appears only when the canonical Power record explicitly authorises it.

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What this power means.

Capability to develop or express reactive balance in a declared context without inheriting broader claims.

What the current evidence supports

Protected perturbation training can improve recovery from similar laboratory slips and trips, while real-world fall reduction is uncertain.

How to observe or measure it without overclaiming

Harness-defined laboratory falls and stability metrics establish response to that perturbation; only prospective community falls can establish real-world transfer.

Myth

Train until you cannot be knocked over

Metric

Falls during standardized protected perturbations plus community follow-up

Boundary

Laboratory recovery cannot prove real-world fall immunity.

Negative and limiting findings

  • A 2023 randomized trial found no statistically significant reduction in daily-life fall rate or other daily-life fall metrics.

Claims this evidence cannot support

  • Fall-proof yourself
  • Practice slipping at home
  • A harness drill prevents all falls
  • One session inoculates anyone

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The learner completes a provider-set series of protected perturbations and records recovery steps, harness catches, rail use and symptoms for each trial.

  1. Get readyConfirm the harness supports body weight without contacting the learner during ordinary standing.
  2. Learn the method7 concrete steps teach the permitted method from start to finish.
  3. See right and wrong5 comparisons show correct or safer execution beside common wrong or riskier choices.
  4. PractiseOnly the qualified balance team selects perturbation direction, magnitude, unpredictability, trials and sessions. Progress one dimension at a time; home trips, shoves and slips are never assigned.
  5. Check progressRecord device, stance, aid, direction, magnitude, timing, steps, rail use, harness loading, provider contact, symptoms and follow-up falls.

Authority boundary: Titan teaches the complete method; a qualified person controls the parts that require supervision, clearance, specialist equipment, load, dose or progression. The method is Power-specific; its actionability follows this treatment.

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Direct evidence register

Sources that support—and limit—the claim.

Citation roles are explicit. A source may support existence or trainability while simultaneously limiting transfer, certainty, generalisation or safety.

  1. Primary empirical supportLimiting / contrary
    Effect of Treadmill Perturbation-Based Balance Training on Fall Rates in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Jens Eg Nørgaard; Stig Andersen; Jesper Ryg; Andrew James Thomas Stevenson; Jane Andreasen; Anderson Souza Oliveira; Mathias Brix Danielsen; Martin Gronbech Jorgensen · 2023 · Primary research

  2. Primary empirical supportLimiting / contrary
    Perturbation training can reduce community-dwelling older adults' annual fall risk: a randomized controlled trial

    Yi-Chung Pai; Tanvi Bhatt; Feng Yang; Edward Wang · 2014 · Primary research

Current teaching and evidence boundary

The next gate remains visible.

External confirmation is required before higher-authority use because: a clinical, high-risk or regulated configuration; a supervision or non-attempt boundary; a restricted safety or legitimacy boundary.

A Power-specific tutorial is available at /tutorials/pwr-028/. It contains a plain-English method, 7 ordered steps, a worked example, right-versus-wrong comparisons, specific mistakes and corrections, practice, measurement, accessibility, stopping rules and evidence. Its supervised mode remains controlling.