Balance Assessment in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review

Towards postural balance control of exoskeletons

“…A challenge here is that there are no standard test protocols to train and to verify standing balance performance using an exoskeleton. For unassisted standing balance assessment of individuals who have a spinal cord injury the Berg Balance Scale [17] and the Functional Reaching Test [34] have shown to be reliable [10]. However, these tests provide little insight into the underlying components of the affected balance [110].…”