Feasibility and tolerance of a robotic postural training to improve standing in a person with ambulatory spinal cord injury.

ABSTRACT: An ambulatory elder with SCI, AIS C, balance deficits, and right ankle-foot-orthosis participated. RobUST-intervention comprised six 90 min-sessions of postural tasks with pelvic assistance and trunk perturbations. We collected three baselines and two 1 week post-training assessments-after the first four sessions (PT1) and after the last two sessions (PT2). We measured Berg Balance Scale (BBS), four-stage balance test (4SBT)-including a 30 s-window with and without vision-standing workspace area, and reactive balance (measured as body weight%). Kinematics, center-of-pressure (COP), and electromyography (EMG) were analyzed to compute root-mean-square-COP (RMS-COP), the margin of stability (MoS), ankle range of motion, and integrated EMG (iEMG) normalized to baseline. The Borg Rating of Perc

SUBMITTER: Santamaria V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8497530 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature