Department of Physiotherapy, Guru Jambheshwar University, Hisar, Haryana.
Postural disorders are frequent in victims of hemiplegia and limit or delay the recovery of gait and functional independence. This makes postural control a priority in post stroke rehabilitation.
To find out the effectiveness of Trunk Control Retraining in Hemiparetic patients with postural disturbances and also to find out any probable relationship between postural disturbance and side of paresis.
One group pre-test post-test quasi experimental design.
Tagore Hospital and Research Centre, Jalandhar.
15 hemiparetic subjects of both sexes in age group of 40–65 years and of either side affection were selected by convenient sampling method (right and left hemi.) and assigned in a single group.
Trunk control retraining therapy for duration of 30 min everyday for 4 times a week and for a total of 4 weeks duration. i.e. total 16 sessions was administered with trivially made Bon Saint Come device.
Patients were assessed before commencement and after the completion of 16th treatment session by a fixed battery of tests namely sitting equilibrium index and upright equilibrium index and then postural graphs were taken with the help of trivially made swaymeter.
Trunk Control Retraining has significant effect in improving the postural disturbances in right hemiparetic patients but there is no statistically significant effect on Left hemiparetic patients.
