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Vol. 64, No. 10, October 1984, p. 1543
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Rolling Board for Treatment and Evaluation of Neurologically Involved Patients: Suggestion from the Field

Richard W Bohannon and Patricia A Larkin

Mr. Bohannon is Chief, Department of Physical Therapy, Southeastern Regional Rehabilitation Center, Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Fayetteville, NC 28302 (USA).
Ms. Larkin is Supervisor of Rehabilitation, Southeastern Regional Rehabilitation Center.

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A number of devices have been advocated for use with patients who have abnormal postural reactions. Among the apparatus used in treating and evaluating these patients are 1) tilt boards1–3 and large inflated balls on which patients sit4,5 and 2) tilting6 and rolling boards6,7 on which patients stand while undergoing displacements.

As a complement to the tilt boards and inflated balls already available in our department for practicing postural reactions, we sought to obtain a rolling board for the same purpose. We were, however, unable to find a commercially available rolling board that could be used with our patients who had CNS lesions. The most complete record we could find of such a board was that of Badke and Duncan, who described their board as a "platform base...constructed to move by a pulley and weight system in the horizontal plane."7...


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