Abstract
The correct development of postural control in children is fundamental to ensure that they fully reach their psychomotor capacities. However, this capacity is one of the least studied in the clinical and academic scope regarding children. The objective of this study was to analyze the degree of implementation of accelerometry as an evaluation technique for postural control in children and how it is being used. Methods: A systematic search was conducted in PubMed, SpringerLink, SportsDiscus, Medline, Scopus, and Web of Science with the following terms: balance, postural control, children, kids, accelerometry, and accelerometer. Results: The search generated a total of 18 articles. Two groups of studies were differentiated: those which exclusively included healthy individuals (n = 5) and those which included children with pathologies (n = 13). Accelerometry is being used in children mainly to assess the gait and static balance, as well as to identify the differences between healthy children and children with developmental disorders. Conclusions: Accelerometry has a discrete degree of implementation as an evaluation tool to assess postural control. It is necessary to define a systematic method for the evaluation of postural control in pediatrics, in order to delve into the development of this capacity and its alterations in different neurodevelopmental disorders.
Highlights
The correct development of postural control (PC) in children is fundamental and necessary to ensure that they fully reach their psychomotor capacities [1]
Accelerometry prevents the evaluator from making measuring errors, which has previously been questioned
After the analysis of the results, the authors did not detect significant differences in the comparison of the accelerometric results of the Pediatric Balance Scale (PBS) with those of the Berg Balance Scale between participants with cerebral palsy (CP) and adult individuals after stroke (R2 = 0.056, p = 0.3). They did not compare this pediatric scale between healthy children and children with CP
Summary
The correct development of postural control (PC) in children is fundamental and necessary to ensure that they fully reach their psychomotor capacities [1]. This period of maturation is due to the fact that adult-like PC strategies appear around the age of 7–8 years [4] These PC strategies are characterized by the optimization of the coordination of movements between the head and the trunk [3,5,6], and by a change in the way in which the brain controls and manages visual, somatosensory, and vestibular inputs, based on feedback [7,8]. All this coincides, in the same period, with the development of other important maturation phenomena in the central nervous system and the acquisition of other complex motor abilities [9]
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