Francesca Biasin, Chiara Ceolin, Silvia Celli, Camilla Terziotti, Cecilia Raffaelli, Cristiano Bontempi, Maria Devita, Marina De Rui, Giuseppe Sergi, Alessandra Coin
OBJECTIVE: There has been growing interest in the past few years on the relationship between impairment of motor functions and cognitive decline, so that the first can be considered a marker of dementia. In MCI patients, the deficit in processing visual information interferes with postural control, causing oscillations and instability. Postural control is usually evaluated through the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) test or Tinetti scale, but, to our knowledge, there are no many studies that considered the Biodex Balance System (BBS) in the evaluation of postural controls in MCI patients...
April 28, 2023: Human Movement Science