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Development and Evaluation of an Objective Assessment of Dynamic Balance Post-stroke

There are limited tools available for clinicians to affordably and objectively assess balance control to prescribe treatments and measure progress post-stroke. The objectives of this thesis were to: 1) develop a toolkit to quantitatively measure dynamic balance control and determine the repeatability of outcomes within and between-sessions in healthy adults; and 2) determine the repeatability of the tasks and the association between outcomes of an advanced clinical model of care in a post-stroke population. In study 1 a wireless balance assessment toolkit was developed using a grid of four Nintendo Wii Balance boards and custom software and repeatability of the outcomes were established in healthy adults. Study 2 revealed the measures to be repeatable in a sub-acute stroke population while further evidence is required to validate the toolkit, as it did not associate with outcomes from an advanced clinical model of care.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/44019
Date18 March 2014
CreatorsFraser, Julia
ContributorsMcIlroy, William
Source SetsUniversity of Toronto
Languageen_ca
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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