Abstract
For about 20 years practitioners have been using stabilometric platforms in their clinical practice. Most of these studies are rather negative; neurologists and otoneurologists have established that these platforms are not very useful for them. Facing this crisis of clinical stabilometry we must remember the main discovery, which was based on fundamental stabilometry : the control of orthostatic posture relies on a set of specific neurophysiological mechanisms that were understood by Tadashi FUKUDA. We may ask the question : how could we go on understanding disorders of this specific set without using clinical stabilometry? The question is important because many patients suffer from troubles that are not very well understood by neurologists and otoneurologists and that appear precisely in relation to the control of orthostatic posture.
