Reduced sway during dual task balance performance among people with stroke at 6 and 12 months after discharge from hospital
Hyndman, Dorit, Pickering, Ruth M. and Ashburn, Ann (2009) Reduced sway during dual task balance performance among people with stroke at 6 and 12 months after discharge from hospital. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 23, (8), 847-854. (doi:10.1177/1545968309338192). (PMID:19556368).
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Description/Abstract
Background: cognitive motor interference has been linked to poor recovery and falls. Little is known about recovery of dual-task balance ability poststroke.
Methods: in this experimental study, postural sway was examined while standing on a force plate in preferred stance, with feet together, and with eyes closed, at 6 and 12 months postdischarge from hospital. Sway was assessed in isolation and while participants performed a cognitive (shopping list) task.
Results: seventy-six people with stroke (mean age 67 years; range, 21-91 years) took part. Fifty-four completed both assessments. When compared with the single task, sway during the dual-task condition was significantly lower in both the medial lateral (ML) and anterior posterior (AP) directions (both P < .0001). Sway in both directions was influenced by the difficulty of the balance task (both P < .0001). There was a trend of reduced sway at the 12-month assessment compared with the 6-month assessment: significant only in the ML direction (P = .0056). Repeat fallers swayed more than non—repeat fallers, with increases of 48% and 44% in the ML (P = .0262) and AP (P = .0134) directions, respectively. No significant variation in the dual-task reduction in sway was found: the dual-task effect was remarkably consistent over all the conditions tested, particularly in the AP direction.
Conclusions: sway decreased under dual-task conditions and changed as the difficulty of the balance task changed. Stroke fallers swayed more than nonfallers and there was evidence of a reduction in sway over time, particularly in the ML direction
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 1545-9683 (print) 1552-6844 |
| Keywords: | postural control, dual task, stroke recovery |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology R Medicine > RT Nursing |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Health Sciences University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Medicine University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Social Sciences University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Medicine > Community Clinical Sciences |
| Item ID: | 72969 |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Feb 2010 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Jul 2012 00:49 |
| Contributors: | Hyndman, Dorit (Author) Pickering, Ruth M. (Author) Ashburn, Ann (Author) |
| Date: | October 2009 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | dh197@soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/72969 |
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