Clinical assessment of reactive balance control in acquired brain injury: A comparison of manual and cable release-from-lean assessment methods.
James R BorrelliChristiane A JunodElizabeth L InnessSimon JonesAvril MansfieldBrian E MakiPublished in: Physiotherapy research international : the journal for researchers and clinicians in physical therapy (2019)
Delays in foot-off time associated with the manual release-from-lean perturbation raise concerns that the manual assessment method may not provide a perturbation that is sufficiently challenging to reveal a patient's balance-recovery capacity and associated fall risk. However, the manual assessment requires no equipment and the assessment score may provide a useful indication of gross reactive balance control.