title: [Posture disorders in patients with multiple sclerosis].
abstract: Impairment of stability in the vertical posture is one of the most common or, sometimes, a key symptom in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Reduction of postural control is often correlated with the severity of neurological deficit and is thought to be a leading factor that impacts on social and working activities of the patient with MS. We studied disturbances of postural control depending on the lesion of a functional system and evaluated the involvement of a corresponding system in the functions of postural control in 61 patients with confirmed MS. Patients were stratified into five groups according to lesion location: visual, motor, sensory, cerebellar or spine stem systems. The maximal impairment of static postural control corresponded to the maximal lesion of the sensory system. Compensatory mechanisms of the activation of central and neuromuscular.
authors.affiliation: Kafedra nevrologii i neĭrokhirurgii Samarskogo gosudarstvennogo meditsinskogo universiteta.
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Zakharov
authors.forename: Ia V
authors.initials: IaV
authors.lastname: Vlasov
authors.forename: I E
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Poverennova
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Khivintseva
authors.forename: O I
authors.initials: OI
authors.lastname: Antipov