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13 sectionsContents
- Control
- Spring action
- Nervous system
- Core muscles
- Expansion of pendulum model
- Pathology
- Orthostatic hypotension
- Orthostatic hypercoagulability
- Orthostatic tremor
- Long-term complications
- See also
- References
- External links
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Standing, also referred to as orthostasis, is a position in which the body is held in an upright (orthostatic) position and supported only by the feet. Although seemingly static, the body rocks slightly back and forth from the ankle in the sagittal plane, which bisects the body into right and left sides. The sway of quiet standing is often likened to the motion of an inverted pendulum.