Screening for balance in children and adults in a community science education setting: Normative data,  influence of age, sex, and body mass index, and feasibility.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Screening standing and walking balance is useful for people suspected of having vestibular disorders, a variety of neurologic and musculoskeletal disorders, and for screening astronauts returning after exposure to microgravity. Visitors to a community science education center children and adults, aged 4 to 85, were tested on tandem walking with eyes closed and the modified Romberg test on compliant foam. They were then asked about their experience participating in research, many people for the first time.

Methods

Subjects performed 10 steps of tandem walking with eyes closed, and three trials of the modified Romberg, or Clinical Test of Sensory Integration and Balance, with eyes closed, standing on compliant memory foam, with a) head still, b) head shaking in yaw,

SUBMITTER: Friello P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9116616 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature