Deans' stroke musings: Overground walking speed changes when subjected to body weight support conditions for nonimpaired and post stroke individuals

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, May 17, 2013

Overground walking speed changes when subjected to body weight support conditions for nonimpaired and post stroke individuals

When I used the Lite-Gait, the lack of weight caused my gait to get noticeably worse because my spasticity then had full rein to express itself. And it expressed itself very badly. The Lokomat worked because the legs were strapped down and the spasticity couldn't take over.
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J65577&phrase=no&rec=120873
NARIC Accession Number: J65577. What's this?
ISSN: 1743-0003.
Author(s): Burgess, Jamie K.; Weibel, Gwendolyn C.; Brown, David A..
Project Number: H133E070013.
Publication Year: 2010.
Number of Pages: 10.
Abstract: Study examined changes in self-selected walking speed in non-impaired subjects and individuals who had suffered a stroke when subjected to body weight support (BWS). Eleven non-impaired subjects and 12 post-stroke subjects walked at a self-selected speed over a 15-meter walkway. BWS was provided to participants at 0, 10, 20, 30, and 40 percent of the subject's weight while they walked overground using a robotic gait and balance training system. Gait speed, cadence, and average step length were calculated for each subject using recorded data on their time to walk 10 meters and the number of steps taken. Results indicated that when subjected to greater levels of BWS, self-selected walking speed decreased for the non-impaired subjects. However, post-stroke subjects showed an average increase of 17 percent in self-selected walking speed when subjected to some level of BWS compared to the 0-percent BWS condition. Most subjects showed this increase at the 10-percent BWS level. Gait speed increases corresponded to an increase in step length, but not cadence.