The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a well-validated ... Identification of motor weakness and ataxia can alert the staff to fall risk (Spilker et al., 1997).
In some cases, an inability to balance is referred to as a symptom known as ataxia. But ataxia can also be its own condition ...
The trial assessed treatment efficacy using the Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA), a standardized tool for evaluating ataxia severity, especially in cerebellar diseases.