abstract
Background: Roughly 150 people are affected with a spinal cord injury every year in Sweden. The impacts are often spasticity, pain, depression, loss of bone mineral density and more. Supported standing is one of the options in physical therapy following a spinal cord injury and earlier studies shows that it can have positive effects. There is however uncertainties as to what scientific base there is of the actual effects achieved by supported standing and how the supported standing should be performed.
Aim: With a scoping literature review explore possible outcomes of supported standing for people with spinal cord injuries on different levels, how supported standing is executed and combined with other treatment methods, and experienced by persons with spinal cord injury.
Method: The study is a scooping review that includes seven different studies. Studies were found through a literature search on three different databases that were later reviewed by relevance and quality and a process chart for data extraction.
Results: Supported standing can have positive effects on BMD, dorsalflexion in the ankle, spasticity, pain and skin temperature but not fatigue. Orthostatic hypotension is common among those who do supported standing but that the majority experience positive effects from the training even though the exact effect cannot be measured
Conclusion: Most studies showed that supported standing has significant effect on several factors but not all and there are negative side effects. Supported standing is performed with different intervals, during different of lengths of time and with different aid.
Key words: Supported standing, rehabilitation, scooping review, spinal cord injuries, effects.
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