Inducing Body Weight Supported Postural Perturbations during Gait and Balance Exercises to Improve Balance after Stroke: A Pilot Study
Impaired balance-regulation after stroke puts both patients and therapists at risk for injury during rehabilitation. Body-weight-support systems minimize this risk and allow patients to safely practice balance activities during therapy. The goal of this pilot study was to determine what effect the novel Training Responses in Postural Rehabilitation (TRiP) balance perturbation module for the ZeroG body-weight support system has on rehabilitating patients’ balance control following an acute stroke. NCT04919161
Project Type: Research
Year started: 2021
Diagnosis: Stroke
Presentation 1: Utilizing the ZeroG TRiP Module During Inpatient Rehabilitation: Balance Recovery in Acute Stroke Patients – A Pilot Study, Poster, 2021
Presentation 2: A Novel Body Weight Supported Postural Perturbation Module for Gait and Balance Rehabilitation After Stroke: Preliminary Evaluation Study. Amanda Meyer, Henry C Hrdlicka, Erica Cutler, Jill Hellstrand, Emily Meise, Kaitlyn Rudolf, Peter Grevelding, and Matthew Nankin. Published March 2022 in JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies. doi: 10.2196/31504. PMID: 35080495
