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Posture Control in MS

Quantitative assessment with visual perceptive computing

Publish date:: February 2, 2016

Postural control can be reliably assessed by visual perceptive computing (VPC) -based static posturography in patients with MS, according to a study of 90 patients with MS and 59 healthy controls in 3 stances: open, closed, and tandem. Researchers found:

As a group, patients with MS performed worse than HCs in all tests.

The closed stance test showed best applicability and reliability.

With closed eyes, in 36.7% of patients, the three-dimensional mean angular sway velocity (MSV-3D) was above HCs 95^th percentile.

Higher MSV-3D was associated with decreased walking speed, worse clinical scores, mainly attributable to the cerebellar functional system score, and reflected in self-reported walking score.

Citation: Behrens JR, Mertens S, Krüger T, et al. Validity of visual perceptive computing for static posturography in patients with multiple sclerosis. [Published online ahead of print January 26, 2016]. Mult Scler. doi:10.1177/1352458515625807.

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