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Vibrotactile-Based Rehabilitation on Balance and Gait in Patients with Neurological Diseases: A Systematic Review and Metanalysis

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BRAIN SCIENCES
卷 11, 期 4, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11040518

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balance rehabilitation; gait rehabilitation; neurological disease; cerebrovascular disease; motor-cognitive; vibrotactile feedback

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  1. Italian Ministry of Health (Ricerca Corrente)

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Postural instability and fear of falling are two major factors affecting mobility and quality of life in patients with cerebrovascular and neurological diseases. Rehabilitation strategies incorporating sensorimotor intervention and active patient involvement have been developed, with vibrotactile feedback (VF) emerging as a potential therapeutic approach for balance and gait rehabilitation in these patients. Despite the lack of high-quality studies, VF-based interventions appear to be safe and effective, but further research is needed to verify their efficacy.
Postural instability and fear of falling represent two major causes of decreased mobility and quality of life in cerebrovascular and neurologic diseases. In recent years, rehabilitation strategies were carried out considering a combined sensorimotor intervention and an active involvement of the patients during the rehabilitation sessions. Accordingly, new technological devices and paradigms have been developed to increase the effectiveness of rehabilitation by integrating multisensory information and augmented feedback promoting the involvement of the cognitive paradigm in neurorehabilitation. In this context, the vibrotactile feedback (VF) could represent a peripheral therapeutic input, in order to provide spatial proprioceptive information to guide the patient during task-oriented exercises. The present systematic review and metanalysis aimed to explore the effectiveness of the VF on balance and gait rehabilitation in patients with neurological and cerebrovascular diseases. A total of 18 studies met the inclusion criteria and were included. Due to the lack of high-quality studies and heterogeneity of treatments protocols, clinical practice recommendations on the efficacy of VF cannot be made. Results show that VF-based intervention could be a safe complementary sensory-motor approach for balance and gait rehabilitation in patients with neurological and cerebrovascular diseases. More high-quality randomized controlled trials are needed.

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