Deans' stroke musings: Application of a virtual reality tracker‑based system to measure seated postural stability in stroke patients

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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Application of a virtual reality tracker‑based system to measure seated postural stability in stroke patients

Where are the postural stability protocols? This assessment DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR THE SURVIVOR. Do some real research sometime soon.

Application of a virtual reality tracker‑based system to measure seated postural stability in stroke patients

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation , Volume 19(71)

NARIC Accession Number: J89586. What's this?
ISSN: 1743-0003.
Author(s): Liang, Huey‑Wen; Tai, Tzu‑Ling; Li, Yue‑Hua; Chen, Ying‑Chun.
Publication Year: 2022.
Number of Pages: 11.

Abstract:

Study tested the reliability and validity of tracker-based posturography with a commercial virtual reality system to record the trunk displacement (TD) path for evaluation of sitting stability among stroke patients. Twenty-one stroke individuals and 21 healthy adults had their postural sway measured with this system under four sitting conditions, i.e., sitting on a solid surface or a soft surface, with eyes open or closed. The test-retest reliability of the TD parameters was evaluated with intraclass correlation coefficients in 22 participants. We also tested the discriminative validity of these parameters to discriminate between stroke and healthy controls, and among four sitting conditions. Furthermore, the TD parameters were correlated with the three balance function tests: the Berg Balance Scale (BBS), the Postural Assessment Scale for Stroke Patients (PASS) and the Function in Sitting Test. The results indicated that the TD parameters obtained by tracker-based posturography had mostly moderate to good reliability across the four conditions, with a few exceptions in the solid surface and eyes open tasks. The TD parameters could discriminate the postural stability between sitting on solid and soft surfaces. The stroke group had more seated postural sway than the control group, especially while sitting on a soft surface. In addition, velocity measures in the sagittal and frontal planes had moderate-to-high correlations with the PASS and BBS scores. This tracker-based system is a cost-effective option for the clinical assessment of body stability for stroke patients in a seated position and shows acceptable reliability and validity.
Descriptor Terms: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, EQUILIBRIUM, EVALUATION TECHNIQUES, PERFORMANCE STANDARDS, POSTURE, STROKE.

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Citation: Liang, Huey‑Wen, Tai, Tzu‑Ling, Li, Yue‑Hua, Chen, Ying‑Chun. (2022). Application of a virtual reality tracker‑based system to measure seated postural stability in stroke patients. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation , 19(71) Retrieved 9/27/2022, from REHABDATA database.