ArticleStroke research and treatment2017
Impact of Spasticity on Balance Control during Quiet Standing in Persons after Stroke.
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- Recent State of Wearable IMU Sensors Use in People Living with Spasticity: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Pooled it
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- Differences in Functional Performance and Minimal Detectable Change According to Levels of Ankle Plantar Flexor Spasticity in Patients with Chronic Stroke.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Implications of Intra-Individual Variability in Motor Performance on Functional Mobility in Stroke Survivors.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effects of dry needling on spasticity and motor function in paralympic athletes: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024Article
- Reliability of force plate-based measures of standing balance in the sub-acute stage of post-stroke recovery.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Automatic characterization of stroke patients' posturography based on probability density analysis.Biomedical engineering online · 2023Article
- Correlation analysis of balance function with plantar pressure distribution and gait parameters in patients with cerebral infarction in the basal ganglia region.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Effects of ankle-foot orthoses on the stability of post-stroke hemiparetic gait.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine · 2022Article
- Pendulum test in chronic hemiplegic stroke population: additional ambulatory information beyond spasticity.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Role of Spasticity Severity in the Balance of Post-stroke Patients.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Effect of Ankle Plantar Flexor Spasticity Level on Balance in Patients With Stroke: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
- Fifteen Years of Wireless Sensors for Balance Assessment in Neurological Disorders.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Short-Step Adjustment and Proximal Compensatory Strategies Adopted by Stroke Survivors With Knee Extensor Spasticity for Obstacle Crossing.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundBalance impairments, falls, and spasticity are common after stroke, but the effect of spasticity on balance control after stroke is not well understood.
methodsIn this cross-sectional study, twenty-seven participants with stroke were divided into two groups, based on ankle plantar flexor spasticity level. Fifteen individuals with high spasticity (Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS) score of ≥2) and 12 individuals with low spasticity (MAS score <2) completed quiet standing trials with eyes open and closed conditions. Balance control measures included centre of pressure (COP) root mean square (RMS), COP velocity, and COP mean power frequency (MPF) in anterior-posterior and mediolateral (ML) directions. Trunk sway was estimated using a wearable inertial measurement unit to measure trunk angle, trunk velocity, and trunk velocity frequency amplitude in pitch and roll directions.
resultsThe high spasticity group demonstrated greater ML COP velocity, trunk roll velocity, trunk roll velocity frequency amplitude at 3.7 Hz, and trunk roll velocity frequency amplitude at 4.9 Hz, particularly in the eyes closed condition (
conclusionIndividuals with high spasticity after stroke demonstrated greater impairment of balance control in the frontal plane, which was exacerbated when vision was removed.
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