Use of balance training in diabetic postural instability

ABSTRACT

The aim of the study was to investigate the effect to balance training program on postural instability in diabetic patients. A standard balance tests either static or dynamic performed in balance master system were evaluated before beginning of balance training and once again after the end of ten weeks of training. The age of the patients ranged between 52 and 62 years. No changes were made in the standard of medical care associated with diabetes for these subjects. All subjects received balance-training program on the balance master system three times per week [every other day] for 30 minutes for the session for ten weeks duration. The results showed that there were significant improvements in both static and dynamic measures after ten weeks of training. These improvements may be due to that visual information can compensate for sensorimotor loss and, with training, subjects can assimilate the information, thus establishing a central motor program, such that the external feedback would no longer be required