title: A longitudinal study of balance in migraineurs.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  Balance in migraineurs, even in those without vestibular symptoms, deteriorates slightly over 1 year in the most challenging test conditions, when measured with posturography.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To discover by a longitudinal study of a group of migraineurs and their controls, whether the well-known, mild imbalance found on posturography in migraineurs is static or progressive.
  
  
  METHODS
  Posturographic measures of sway under incrementally more challenging conditions (up to eyes closed standing on a foam surface with the head extended) using the modified clinical test of sensory interaction on balance, limits of stability test, and tandem gait tests in a group of 19 migraineurs and 19 age- and gender-matched controls, all of whom who had been tested over 1 year before.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After 1 year migraineurs showed a slight but statistically significant deterioration: in postural sway especially, when measured with eyes closed standing on a foam surface with the head extended backwards; in reaction time; and in maximal excursion on the limits of the stability test; and perhaps in walk speed and step width on the tandem walk test.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Medicine, Inciralti, Izmir, Turkey. gulden.akdal@deu.edu.tr
authors.forename: Gülden
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Akdal
authors.forename: Birgül Dönmez
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Balci
authors.forename: Salih
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Angin
authors.forename: Vesile
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Oztürk
authors.forename: G Michael
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Halmagyi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005684:Gait; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004856:Postural Balance / Q000502:physiology*; D011434:Proprioception / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D016138:Walking / Q000502:physiology