Sentence examples for stance testing from inspiring English sources

Unipedal stance testing in the assessment of peripheral neuropathy.

Conclusions: Unipedal stance testing is useful in the clinical setting both to identify and to exclude the presence of peripheral neuropathy.

Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2001;82 198-204 Objective: To define further the relation between unipedal stance testing and peripheral neuropathy.

Minimal motor impairment was determined using the rotorod test in mice and the positional sense test, muscle tone test, and gait and stance test in rats.

Further, the whiplash group had greater RMS, but significantly less sway energy than the idiopathic group in most narrow stance tests in the anterior posterior direction F>5.8, p<0.02).

Conclusion: Women with lower extremity arthritis can be reliably assessed on postural sway measures on a stable two-legged stance test.

Also a moderate correlation coefficient was found between the sway parameters measured by the quantitative posturography system and the two functional balance assessment tests, the single leg stance test and the functional reach test.

Intervention: Postural sway measures under a two-legged stance test on two separate test days: day 1, pretest; day 2, posttest, administered after a 6-week aquatic exercise program.

Direct comparison between the neck pain groups revealed that the whiplash group had significantly greater sway energy and RMS amplitude than the idiopathic group in comfortable stance tests on a soft surface (F>4.4, p<0.04).

Aquatic exercise reduced postural sway in women with lower extremity arthritis, as demonstrated by a two-legged stance test, and this exercise program appears to be a viable treatment for increasing postural stability in this population.

The same is applicable for the single leg stance test.