An Ohio University researcher wants to know what is happening to our bodies when our balance is offATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — For most of us, maintaining balance isn’t something we think much about. But a researcher at Ohio University thinks a lot about how the body maintains balance, and what happens when that automatic control starts to break down. He was part of a research team that recently published a paper looking at how the body compensates when we’re feeling off balance. A lot of them are just involuntarily activating our muscles in ways that maintain our balance for us. It deprives the automatic level of control of opportunities to adapt and maintain itself through everyday behaviors.