Postural balance after stroke

Abstract

Stroke is often complicated by postural imbalance. A balance defect disrupts, to a greater or lesser extent, the vital function of walking created by the evolution of Homo sapiens, impairs the quality of life, and brings a risk of falls and traumatic injuries. Therefore, one of the immediate objectives of rehabilitation is restoration of postural balance, i.e., repeated, post-childhood, learning to walk. The lecture shows some modern techniques for facilitating such rehabilitation: walking with a maximum, but not excessive load for the individual, on soft and different surfaces for the right and left legs, synchronous performance of motor and cognitive exercises, functional electrical stimulation, stabilometric postural training and control of the process in robotic mechanical simulators, and the use of biofeedback to adjust the rehabilitation process.