Scoping Review of Center of Pressure Interventions for Stroke Survivor Fall Risk

73% of stroke survivors fall within the first year after leaving the hospital, causing over $50 billion in annual healthcare costs. This scoping review document, authored by Jan A. Kuipers and updated in April 2026, maps nine studies with 306 participants on interventions targeting center of pressure abnormalities to reduce fall risk. The review synthesizes evidence from 2015 to 2025 and includes stakeholder insights on clinical implementation.

Use Cases

• Identify effective biofeedback interventions based on the review's analysis of force-plate studies with effect sizes d = 0.52–0.84.
• Inform protocol standardization based on the documented stakeholder consensus and resource-based implementation framework.
• Correlate sway velocity reductions with fall likelihood based on the reported relationship where a 0.5 cm/s reduction links to an 18% decrease in fall risk.

Strengths

• Includes stakeholder insights from a panel of seven members, including stroke survivors and clinicians.
• Synthesizes evidence from nine studies covering 306 participants, with a defined search period from January 2015 to June 2025.
• Reports specific quantitative relationships, such as correlation coefficients (r = 0.52–0.71) between sway velocity and fall risk.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 22.1 KB DOCX document, indicating a limited scope focused on review text rather than raw study data.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; the document's structured data must be extracted manually.
• Methodological heterogeneity across reviewed studies, including equipment costs ranging from $100 to $50,000, may limit direct comparability.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Scoping review conducted following PRISMA-ScR guidelines, searching PubMed, MEDLINE, and the Cochrane Library.

Time Range

Studies reviewed from January 2015 to June 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 04:15:27

Geography

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