A Sliding Linear Investigative Platform for Assessing Lower Limb Stability (SLIP-FALLS) was employed to
study postural control biomechanical reaction to external perturbations in a short ≤16mm postural
perturbation. Head acceleration were evaluated while blindfolded subjects stood on a platform that was
given a short anterior perturbation presented in one of 2 sequential 4s intervals (2-Alternative-ForcedChoice)
for a set of 30 trials. Anterior-Posterior head acceleration (Head Accl AP) were investigated
among the movement and non-movement intervals for the healthy adults. A strong ringing signal was
observed in Head Accl AP movement interval that was absent in non-movement interval. A positive power
law trading relationship was found between Head Accl AP gain and move length standing blindfolded
subjects. This could explain the observed negative power law relationship between translation length and
peak acceleration threshold in previous psychophysical detection threshold s