Portable stabilometry platform ARGOPLUS

The Static Stabilometric platform is a device that allows to evaluate the motor function and balance in standing position. The maintenance of the upright position is in fact a motor task typical of the bipedal posture in which the de-stabilizing effect of the body mass has to be balanced, with the barycentre at about 60% of the height from the supporting surface in a generally more advanced position than the ankle axis. The human being acquires this capacity, which requires the coordination of motor skills on the basis of voluntary acts, taking into account the specific and exteroceptive information currently available. The evolution of the musculoskeletal structure, the practice of motor acts, but also the loss of functionality of the structures themselves, cause a continuous adaptation of the motor patterns that are also affected by sensory changes – for example loss of vision – but also the loss of strength or of the ability to control. It should also be remembered that nociceptive stimulation, sometimes even below the threshold of perception, interferes with the mechanisms of proprioception by altering the motor response. The analysis of equilibrium in an upright position is therefore an important tool for functional assessment because it allows to recognize a dysfunctional state and, through the examination of the data acquired in the test, allows to formulate hypotheses of diagnostic analysis characterized by selectivity and appropriateness. Therefore, among the fields of application of static stabilometry there are: screening of the risk of falling - a serious problem for the elderly, especially in conditions of ``fragility``;