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| Balance abilities of community dwelling older adults under altered visual and support surface conditions | | Author(s) | Brian Alhanti, Lori A Bruder, Wendy Creese |
| Journal title | Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, vol 15, no 1, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 37-52 |
| Source | Haworth Document Delivery Center, Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. |
| Keywords | Independence ; Living in the community ; Visual impairment ; Sense organ problems ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Clinical Test of Sensory Interaction on Balance (CTISB) - more commonly known as the Foam and Dome Test - was used to examine older people's balance abilities. The test evaluates an individual's ability to maintain upright standing under altered visual and support surface conditions. Participants were 69 older people aged 61 to 97 (mean age 76.3) from culturally diverse backgrounds, who attend day centres in North Philadelphia (PA). They were timed on the six different conditions of the CTISB. A perfect score was 30 seconds. 46 were able to complete all conditions. Scores tended to decrease as the difficulty of the conditions increased. Older people tend to use visual input to maintain balance, even with conflicting visual information; and tend to have better standing balance on hard versus compliant surfaces. To assess balance abilities of patients when using the CTISB, clinicians can use the norms developed with independently living older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981110224 A |
| Classmark | C3: K4: BR: BLP: 4C: 7T |
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