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The impact of comprehensive spa treatment with the use of a stabilometric platform on postural balance control and functional fitness of patients after a stroke

Agnieszka Nitera-Kowalik, Iwona Sarzyńska-Długosz, Małgorzata Łukowicz, Agnieszka Malec, Robert Owsiński, Wiesław Bujalski

Agnieszka Nitera-Kowalik, Iwona Sarzyńska-Długosz, Małgorzata Łukowicz, Agnieszka Malec, Robert Owsiński, Wiesław Bujalski – The impact of comprehensive spa treatment with the use of a stabilometric platform on postural balance control and functional fitness of patients after a stroke. Fizjoterapia Polska 2022; 22(1); 76-93

Abstract
Introduction. Loss of postural balance control is a symptom that occurs in 60% of stroke patients, limiting patients’ mobility and functional efficiency. The reconstruction of lost functions can be achieved thanks to comprehensive spa treatment with the use of a modern device for the assessment and training of balance – a stabilometric platform.
The objective was to assess the impact of comprehensive spa treatment, including therapy on a stabilometric platform, on balance and functional fitness of stroke patients undergoing rehabilitation at the 21st Military Spa and Rehabilitation Hospital in Busko-Zdrój.
Material and methods. Seventeen patients were examined: 6 patients (35.3%) after a haemorrhagic stroke and 11 patients (64.7%) after an ischemic stroke diagnosed according to ICD-10: I.69, G.81; including 4 (23.5%) women and 13 (76.5%) men. Patients in the study group aged 35 to 70 (58.06 on average) received spa and rehabilitation treatment at the 21st Military Spa and Rehabilitation Hospital in Busko-Zdrój. The examinations were carried out from May 2019 to October 2020 as part of the project “Establishing a research laboratory for methods of rehabilitation of patients with musculoskeletal disorders”. The patients were subject to a comprehensive spa treatment program, extended with objective assessment and exercises on the Alfa stabilometric platform. Selected tests and clinical scales were used for the functional assessment of patients: Timed Up and Go test (TUG test), 10-meter walk test (10 Meter Walk Test), 2-minute walk test (2MWT). The patients were assessed on the day of commencing the spa treatment and after three weeks.
Results. Objective improvement of balance parameters in the stabilometric evaluation after 3 weeks of spa and rehabilitation treatment was noticed in the younger group of patients with right hemiparesis long after a stroke. Patients with left hemiparesis achieved shorter task completion times in the 10MWT and TUG clinical tests. In addition, they covered a longer distance in the 2MWT test.
Conclusions. The program of comprehensive spa and rehabilitation treatment, enriched with training with the use of the Alpha stabilometric platform, had a positive effect on the improvement of balance parameters and gait function in patients long after a stroke. Therapy on a stabilometric platform with the use of biofeedback should be a standard element of therapy in stroke patients.
Key words:
spa treatment, stroke, stabilometric platform
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Analysis of the effect of comprehensive rehabilitation with stabilometric platform on body balance in patients with multiple sclerosis and after stroke

Justyna Redlicka, Jan Niedzielski, Elzbieta Miller

J. Redlicka, J. Niedzielski, E. Miller – Analysis of the effect of comprehensive rehabilitation with stabilometric platform on body balance in patients with multiple sclerosis and after stroke. FP 2017; 17(4); 18-23

Abstract

Objective. The objective was to evaluate the effect of a comprehensive rehabilitation program on body balance in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and after cerebral stroke.
Materials and methods. Tests were performed at the NeurorehabilitationWard of Dr K.Jonscher Municipal Hospital no. 3 in Lodz on randomly selected patients with MS and after stroke. The group included 50 subjects – 30 men and 20 women, aged 32 to 76 years. All the patients were examined twice for body balance with the use of a computerized stabilometric platform. The following parameters were analyzed: the mean number of all sways, the mean number of sways forwards and backwards, as well as to the left and right. All the sway parameters were measured both with eyes closed and open. The results obtained after rehabilitation were compared to those from before the introduction of rehabilitation.
Results. A course of comprehensive rehabilitation of MS patients resulted in a significant reduction of sways with eyes closed (p < 0.001), however less significant with eyes open (p < 0.2). Similarly, a marked improvement was observed in post-stroke patients in the mean number of sways with eyes closed (p < 0.001), whereas with eyes open, the results were not statistically significant (p < 0.02).
Conclusions. Comprehensive rehabilitation has a significant effect on the body balance of patients with MS and after stroke. In the trial with the use of a stabilometric platform, better results after a course of rehabilitation were noted inpost-stroke patients.

Key words:
stabilometric platform, balance, stroke, multiple sclerosis

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