Measuring the Balance Control System – Review

• Main Author: Jitka Jančová
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Karolinum Press 2008-01-01
• Series: Acta Medica
• Subjects: Balance Assessment; Center of Pressure (COP); Center of Mass (COM); Aging; Measurement of Stabilization; Quantification of Balance Control
• Online Access: https://actamedica.lfhk.cuni.cz/51/3/0129/

Past studies of postural control during standing have employed wide range of procedures including the outcome measures use to quantify postural control, the duration of the sample collected, sampling frequency and methods for data processing. Due to these differences there remains little, if any, common grounds for comparisons between studies to establish a concrete understanding of the features and bouns which characterize normal healthy postural control. This article deals with terms such as reliability and repeatability of stabilometric measurements, stabilometric data quantification and analysis. To clear up those terms is suggested, by the author of this paper, very important. The stabilometric measurements remain, nevertheless, different when dealing with aging adults. Though, we notes some alterations of the aging systems, this article is not entirely dedicated to the seniors population. Measurements of COP and technical notes remain the main axis of present paper.