Standing postural instability in patients with schizophrenia: Relationships with psychiatric symptoms, anxiety, and the use of neuroleptic medications

anon79999497 · April 3, 2015, 12:30pm

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Standing postural instability in patients with schizophrenia: Relationships with psychiatric symptoms, anxiety, and the use of neuroleptic medications.

Y Matsuura, H Fujino, R Hashimoto, Y Yasuda, H Yamamori, K Ohi, M Takeda and O Imura, Gait & posture, Mar 2015

The purpose of this study was to assess postural instability in patients with schizophrenia using a pressure-sensitive platform and to examine the effects of anxiety, psychiatric symptoms, and the use of neuroleptic medications on postural sway. Participants were 23 patients with schizophrenia and 23 healthy controls. We found that the patients showed greater overall postural instability than the controls. Furthermore, they demonstrated greater instability when the test was performed with the eyes closed than with the eyes open. However, removal of visual input had less impact on the indices of postural instability in the patients than in the controls, suggesting that schizophrenia is associated with difficulties in integrating visual information and proprioceptive signals. Furthermore, in contrast to the controls, anxiety exacerbated postural instability in the patients. There were significant associations between postural stability and psychiatric symptoms in the patients without extrapyramidal symptoms, whereas medication dose did not significantly correlate with postural stability.

Mottec · April 3, 2015, 8:21pm

more of research like this, that is critical. I experienced great instabiliy from Abilify.

anon74700328 · April 3, 2015, 8:23pm

Yeah I’m not a very stable person physically. I’m super sensitive to motions and what they might be interpreted as.

Shifting, speeding up, slowing down.

■■■■ schizophrenia.

anon49185775 · April 3, 2015, 8:41pm

I think my posture is good because of my personality…my posture is good minus the restless left leg

anon79999497 · April 3, 2015, 8:43pm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term="postural+instability"+schizophrenia

martinhersey · April 3, 2015, 9:10pm

I went to a physical therapy place here in town for stuttering in my walking–getting started and stopping. They tested me for postural instability on a cushion-eyes open. I had to count to 15. There were no controls, just a lot of older people working on machines. I hadn’t considered this might have something to do with my illness. I simply considered it to be a part of getting old. Studies among the SZ population certainly damns us as a class.

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Standing postural instability in patients with schizophrenia: Relationships with psychiatric symptoms, anxiety, and the use of neuroleptic medications

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