Gravic body sway test (GBST)/stabilometry

Abstract

Gravic body sway is used in daily medical practice as stabilometry. How is a test result understood and are interpretation and evaluation carried out? Stabilometry is a eguilibrium test with many analysis indices for evaluation of the body balance function. As for the analysis parameters, each shows the state of body balance control. Normal postural control depends on normal functioning of each organ involved in postural control. Each organ is a sense organ (vestibular system, vision, somatosensory), including the vestibular nerve, the brainstem, cerebellum, cerebrum, spine, muscles, etc., and malfunctioning of any of these components can be expected to result in unstable postural control. The function in which it holds a standing position posture at the time of a balanced obstacle is a function, which is going to rectify instability. The method of postural control changes a lot by how righting reflex is maintained at the time of an obstacle. It can guess us that control of recovery changes greatly with the parts and the obstacle grades of having received the obstacle. Various phenomena can be evaluated by carrying out analysis of these abnormalities by stabilometry. It was shown that the main analysis parameters are of great value in analyzing the various components of postural control.