[Stabilometry as a tool for assessing postural balance: modern approaches, methods, and standardization issues....

Postural balance impairment is associated with an increased risk of falls, reduced daily activity, and a decline in patients' quality of life. Given that balance function is one of the fundamental and most vital functions for life, the objective diagnosis and correction of its pathology remain highly relevant in clinical practice.

To examine modern approaches to the methodology and specific techniques used in stabilometric assessment of postural balance and to analyze the current state of standardization of stabilometry in both clinical practice and scientific research.

The review includes studies of varying levels of evidence (randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, cohort studies, non-systematic reviews, consensus documents) identified through databases such as PubMed, Mendeley, ScienceDirect, eLIBRARY.RU, Google Scholar, and CyberLeninka covering the period from 2000 to 2025. Modern approaches to assessing postural balance are discussed, along with the main reasons for the absence of unified standardized reference values in stabilometric studies.

Stabilometry - a method of quantitatively evaluating postural balance by analyzing oscillations of the center of pressure projection on a support surface - is considered a modern tool for diagnosing postural imbalance. However, the diversity of protocols used in stabilometric testing, the lack of uniform standards for data processing and interpretation, and the need to account for variable individual patient parameters limit the application of this method in clinical settings and reduce the informativeness and comparability of scientific studies.

To enhance the validity and reliability of stabilometric research, standardization in technical, software, and terminological domains (development of protocols and data processing standards) is required to fully realize the potential of this method.