Deans' stroke musings: Relationship between observational Wisconsin gait scale, gait deviation index, and gait variability index in individuals poststroke

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.

Saturday, January 25, 2020

Relationship between observational Wisconsin gait scale, gait deviation index, and gait variability index in individuals poststroke

What the fuck use is this in anything getting survivors recovered? Maybe instead work on solutions for the 85% of survivors with gait abnormalities?

Relationship between observational Wisconsin gait scale, gait deviation index, and gait variability index in individuals poststroke

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , Volume 100(9) , Pgs. 1680-1687.

NARIC Accession Number: J82451. What's this?
ISSN: 0003-9993.
Author(s): Guzik, Agnieszka; Druzbicki, Ariusz; Maistrello, Lorenza; Turolla, Andrea; Agostinit, Michele; Kiper, Pawel.
Publication Year: 2019.
Number of Pages: 8.

Abstract:

Study compared results of the observational Wisconsin Gait Scale (WGS) and global gait indexes such as Gait Deviation Index (GDI) and Gait Variability Index (GVI), constituting an objective method of assessing gait, and considering parameters identified during 3-dimensional gait analysis (3DGA). Fifty post stroke individuals and 50 individuals without stroke and without gait disorders participated. Gait was evaluated using the WGS. GDI and GVI values were acquired using a movement analysis system. The global gait indexes GDI and GVI were determined based on the kinematic and spatiotemporal parameters, respectively. The results showed statistically significant correlations between the parameters of: GDI affected leg and WGS total score, GVI affected leg and WGS total score, GVI unaffected leg and WGS total score, GVI affected/unaffected leg and the total score in the assessment of spatiotemporal parameters on the WGS, as well as GDI affected leg and the total score in the assessment of kinematics parameters on the WGS. All correlations were strong. The findings indicate that WGS scores have a strong or very strong correlation with GDI and GVI. The WGS may be recommended as a substitute tool to be used when 3DGA is unavailable, as it is a useful ordinal scale, enabling simple and accurate observational assessment of gait in patients poststroke, with effectiveness that is comparable to the GDI and GVI.
Descriptor Terms: AMBULATION, REHABILITATION, STROKE.

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Citation: Guzik, Agnieszka, Druzbicki, Ariusz, Maistrello, Lorenza, Turolla, Andrea, Agostinit, Michele, Kiper, Pawel. (2019). Relationship between observational Wisconsin gait scale, gait deviation index, and gait variability index in individuals poststroke. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation , 100(9), Pgs. 1680-1687. Retrieved 1/25/2020, from REHABDATA database.