UNLABELLED Postural balance is a sensory-motor function resulting from a learning process. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the postural control of underachieving students through static posturography together with virtual reality stimulation. METHODS This was a controlled cross-sectional study of a group of 51 underachieving students and a control group of 60 students with good school performance, wi...

Purpose: To assess body balance and to quantify possible alterations over the static posturography of the Balance Rehabilitation Unit (BRU) in patients with vestibular dysfunction. Methods: Retrospective study, with files of 100 patients with topographic diagnosis of peripheral or central vestibular dysfunction and 100 healthy individuals that composed the Control Group, of both genders, with a...

BACKGROUND Posturography is considered the gold standard objective measure of standing postural control in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). This reliable tool provides quantitative data related to risk of falling and white and gray matter brain damage due to MS. Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether and to what extent, postural control declines throughout the disease process. We theref...

PURPOSE To analyze the findings of posturography with virtual reality stimuli carried out in young healthy adults with no otoneurological complaints, based on the parameters center of pressure, limit of stability and sway speed for different visual stimuli, and regarding differences between female and male genders. METHODS Participants were 50 healthy individuals of both genders (50% female a...

OBJECTIVE To identify the subtle change of postural control in elderly patients with unilateral knee osteoarthritis (OA) with computerized dynamic posturography. METHOD Twenty-two healthy women and twenty-six women with unilateral knee OA, aged 60 and over, were enrolled. The computerized posturographic measures included a weight bearing pattern during squatting and sit-to-stand, sway velocit...