Analysis of Postural Control in Sitting by Pressure Mapping in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis, Spinal Cord Injury and Friedreich's Ataxia

María Mercedes Reguera-García, Raquel Leirós-Rodríguez, Lorena Álvarez-Barrio, Beatriz Alonso-Cortés Fradejas; Preprint from Research Square, 05 Jun 2020  DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-32856/v1

The tools available for the postural control assessment in patients with neurological diseases lack reliability and sensitivity to small changes in patient functionality. The appearance of pressure mapping has allowed quantitative evaluation of postural control in sitting. This study was carried out todetermine the evaluations in pressure mapping and verifying whether they are different between the three sample groups (multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury and Friedreich's ataxia), and to determine whether the pressure mapping is more sensitive than functional tests.