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Interventions to Improve Standing Balance in Individuals With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Shefali WaliaPragya KumarChitra Kataria
Published in: Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation (2023)
This study demonstrated weak evidence to support the use of BWST interventions for overground training for balance rehabilitation in individuals with iSCI. A combination of BWST with stimulation however showed promising results. There is a need for further RCTs in this field to generalize findings. Virtual reality-based balance training has shown significant improvement in standing balance post iSCI. However, these results are based on single group pre-post trials and lack appropriately powered RCTs involving a larger sample size to support this intervention. Given the importance of balance control underpinning all aspects of daily activities, there is a need for further well-designed and appropriately powered RCTs to evaluate specific features of training interventions to improve standing balance function in iSCI.
Keyphrases
  • virtual reality
  • spinal cord injury
  • physical activity
  • randomized controlled trial