title: Short-term balance training with computer-based feedback in children with cerebral palsy: A feasibility and pilot randomized trial.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the feasibility of using short-term balance training with computer-based visual feedback (BTVF) and its effect on standing balance in children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy (BSCP).
  
  
  METHODS
  Out of the fourteen children with BSCP (mean age = 10.31 years), seven children received four sessions of BTVF (two such sessions/day, each session = 15 min) in comparison to the control group that received standard care. Feasibility was measured as percentages of recruitment, retention and safety and balance was measured using a posturography machine as sway velocity (m/s) and velocity moment (m/s2) during quiet standing.
  
  
  RESULTS
  No serious adverse events occurred in either group. There were no differences in the retention percentages and in any clinical outcome measure between both groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Use of BTVF is feasible in children with BSCP but further investigation is required to estimate a dose-effect relationship.
authors.affiliation: a School of Physical and Occupational Therapy , McGill University , Canada.
authors.forename: Shikha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saxena
authors.affiliation: b Manipal College of Allied Health Sciences , Manipal University , India.
authors.forename: Bhamini K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.affiliation: b Manipal College of Allied Health Sciences , Manipal University , India.
authors.forename: Kumaran D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Senthil
mesh_terms: D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002648:Child; D005081:Exercise Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D056228:Feedback, Sensory / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D004856:Postural Balance / Q000502:physiology*; D016037:Single-Blind Method; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Intervention; posture; stability; visual feedback