Interventions for preventing falls in people after stroke.

CONCLUSIONS: At present there exists very little evidence about interventions other than exercises to reduce falling post stroke. Low to very low quality evidence exists that this population benefits from exercises to prevent falls, but not to reduce number of fallers.Fall research does not in general or consistently follow methodological gold standards, especially with regard to fall definition and time post stroke. More well-reported, adequately-powered research should further establish the value of exercises in reducing falling, in particular per phase, post stroke.
PMID: 31573069 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - September 30, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Denissen S, Staring W, Kunkel D, Pickering RM, Lennon S, Geurts AC, Weerdesteyn V, Verheyden GS Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research