Effectiveness Of Visual Feedback Balance Training On Equiboard Versus Traditional Balance Training In Post Stroke Patients- A Comparative Study

Abstract

Background: A Stroke is classically characterized as  a neurological deficit attributed to an acute focal injury of the central nervous system by a vascular cause and is a major cause of disability and death worldwide.⁽¹⁾ Balance problems are thought to be common after stroke and they have been implicated in the poor recovery of activities of daily living and mobility and increased risk of falls.⁽²⁾ Postural sway for patients with hemiplegia can be twice that of their age matched peers. Many balance training are used but No general physiotherapy approach has proven to be superior for promoting balance recovery from stroke.⁽³⁾Novel biofeedback devices based on Virtual reality (VR)technology are now being used for neuromotor rehabilitation. Traditional balance training is based on the automatic repetition of specific movements. These methods can become repetitive and thus reduce the motivation of the patient and adherence to treatment. So the need of my study is to compare the effectiveness of visual feedback balance training on   equiboard and traditional balance training in post stroke patients.

Aims and objectives-To study and compare the effectiveness of visual feedback balance training on equiboard versus traditional balance training in post stroke patients.

Methodology- 30 patients with stroke were equally divided into two groups. patients in group A received the conventional physiotherapy while the patients in group B received visual feedback balance training on equiboard. All the subjects were treated for 1 month, 5 days a week. BBS-Berg Balance Scale and step test was used as the outcome measure at the beginning and end of study.

Results-Results showed significant improvement within both the groups for both the outcome measure(p,0.05), while there was no significant difference between two groups in BBS(p>0.5), but there was significant difference in the step test of experimental group(p<0.5)

Conclusion-It can be concluded that visual feedback balance training is more effective than the traditional balance training alone in stroke patients.