Deans' stroke musings: Four-week training involving self-ankle mobilization with movement versus calf muscle stretching in patients with chronic stroke: a randomized controlled study

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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Four-week training involving self-ankle mobilization with movement versus calf muscle stretching in patients with chronic stroke: a randomized controlled study

Time for you to guess what self-mobilization with movement and calf muscle stretching are with guessed repetitions also. Doesn't that feel good to do all this on your own with zero help from your stroke medical 'professionals'? And you are paying them besides. But then this is chronic so you have been kicked out of therapy a long time ago. Damned insurance and their invalid use of plateau.

Four-week training involving self-ankle mobilization with movement versus calf muscle stretching in patients with chronic stroke: a randomized controlled study

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 27(4) , Pgs. 296-304.

NARIC Accession Number: J83535. What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Park, Donghwan; Cynn, Heon-Seock ; Yi, Chunghwi ; Choi, Woochol J. ; Shim, Jae-Hun ; Oh, Duck-Won.
Publication Year: 2020.
Number of Pages: 9.
Abstract:
Study compared the effects of self-mobilization with movement (S-MWM) to those of calf muscle stretching (CMS) on ankle dorsiflexion passive range of motion (DF-PROM), gait parameters, and fall risk in patients with chronic stroke with limited ankle dorsiflexion. In S-MWM therapy, a strap can be utilized to stabilize the posterior glide of the talus during ankle dorsiflexion movements. Thirty-eight participants were randomized into the S-MWM and CMS groups. Both groups received conventional physiotherapy for 30 minutes per session. In addition, S-MWM and CMS techniques were performed 3 times per week for 4 weeks and were performed by the participants themselves. Ankle DF-PROM, gait parameters, and fall risk were measured after 4 weeks of training. After 4 weeks of training, both groups showed significant improvement in all outcome measures.(But you didn't have a control group, so bad research.) Furthermore, ankle DF-PROM, gait parameters (gait speed, cadence, and stride lengths on both sides), and fall risk showed greater improvement in the S-MWM group than in the CMS group. Results show that S-MWM training combined with conventional physiotherapy improved ankle DF-PROM, gait parameters, and fall risk in patients with chronic stroke.
Descriptor Terms: JOINTS, LIMBS, MOBILITY, MOTOR SKILLS, PHYSICAL THERAPY, SELF CARE, STROKE.

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Citation: Park, Donghwan, Cynn, Heon-Seock , Yi, Chunghwi , Choi, Woochol J. , Shim, Jae-Hun , Oh, Duck-Won. (2020). Four-week training involving self-ankle mobilization with movement versus calf muscle stretching in patients with chronic stroke: a randomized controlled study. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 27(4), Pgs. 296-304. Retrieved 6/11/2020, from REHABDATA database.