Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Advisor
Jeannette Manger
Abstract
Objective: Provide additional evidence about the relationship between controlled hypertension and balance control by evaluating individuals’ gait stability, sensorial orientation, reactive postural response, and anticipatory postural adjustment using the Mini-Balance Evaluation Systems Test (Mini-BESTest).
Methods: A total of 76 (28 controlled hypertensive, 48 non-hypertensive) individuals were evaluated with the Mini-BESTest protocol. Each of the subscores obtained from the test represented the different subdomains of postural control, and they were compared between controlled hypertensive and non-hypertensive groups using a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) statistical analysis.
Results: Hypertensive individuals tended to score lower than non-hypertensive individuals in the anticipatory postural adjustment and sensorial orientation subcategories, but they tended to score higher than the non-hypertensive group in the reactive postural response and gait stability subcategories. However, none of these differences were found to be statistically significant.
Repository Citation
Sich, M. (2020). Effectiveness of the Mini-Balance Evaluation Systems Test (Mini-BESTest) in evaluating Balance in the Controlled Hypertensive Elderly Population. Wright State University. Dayton, Ohio.
