Clinical assessments of balance often rely on indirect measures that offer limited insights into the underlying sensorimotor control mechanisms. Consequently, there is a need for standardized and objective quantification of balance control mechanisms....
No actionable change for routine audiology practice yet — the review outlines future diagnostic potential for perturbation-based balance modeling, but standardized clinical protocols are not established.
Advancing computational models of balance assessment could improve vestibular diagnostics, helping audiologists and vestibular specialists identify and quantify sensorimotor deficits more precisely in patients with dizziness or falls risk.
- 01Narrative review covers perturbation-based modeling as a tool for assessing balance control in clinical populations.
- 02Models simulate unexpected body disturbances to measure how the nervous system responds to maintain balance.
- 03Approach has implications for diagnosing and monitoring vestibular and sensorimotor disorders.
- 04Clinical translation is still emerging; standardized protocols do not yet exist.
- 05Review is published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience and covers multiple patient populations.
Perturbation-based modeling can assess balance control mechanisms in clinical patient populations.
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- DOI
- 10.3389/fnhum.2026.1768417.
- Journal
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
- Publication type
- review
- Evidence level
- 5
- Population
- Multiple clinical patient populations with balance or sensorimotor disorders
- Intervention
- Perturbation-based computational modeling for balance assessment
Primary outcomes
Assessment of balance control mechanisms; Clinical applicability of perturbation-based models in patient populations