Fucking useless writeup. No link to what these new gait guidelines are. Sent an email to the writer on this, we'll see if she responds. A great stroke association would be responding to every article on stroke around the world.
The writers response:
Dean,
Good point. I will make sure the researcher sees your note. I’m not sure if the guidelines are publicly available yet. Thank you for writing.
Gloria
Walking faster after stroke
Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute researchers recently presented
results from two studies at the American Congress of Rehabilitation
Medicine. The annual conference is an expansive educational program
covering brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, neurodegenerative
diseases, pain, cancer, pediatric rehabilitation and neuroplasticity.
Nancy Flinn, PhD, OTR/L, senior scientific adviser, showed how
new gait guidelines have improved the walking speed of stroke patients.
Courage Kenny developed more aggressive guidelines based on best
practices and began using them during physical therapy sessions in 2015.
On average, patients doubled their improvement in speed during therapy
after the implementation of the guidelines.
"Gait speed has a big impact of how people do in the community.
The gains patients made in gait speed meant that, on average, patients
were now walking at community walking speeds. If they went to the mall
or the grocery store, they would be able to move at the speed of others,
so they are safer, because they are less likely to get bumped by others
who are passing them," said Flinn.
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