POSTUROGRAPHIC PERFORMANCE AND REPEATABILITY OF THE COMPUTERIZED SIT-TO-STAND TEST: PRELIMINARY RESULTS

摘要

Each year, one in every three adults over the age of 65 falls often with injury. While this public health problem can besubstantially reduced with simple interventions such as vestibular rehabilitation, balance assessments are not routinely donein the clinic, and less than half of affected adults talk to their physicians about such concerns. The goal of this study is toinvestigate distinct posturographic parameters of the computerized Sit-to-Stand (StS) Test to determine between- and withinsubjectvariability of these. The CAPS® Professional system and the BalanceTRAK® software were used to collect tenrepetitions of the StS from 25 subjects. The inclusion criteria included a questionnaire investigating the subject’s healthstatus, the presence of known vestibular health concerns or illnesses, and the ability to maintain balance while standing.Significant variation between and within subjects were found for all posturographic parameters considered in this study.However, no fatigue or learning effects were found among the ten repetitions.