Implicit and explicit motor learning interventions have similar effects on walking speed in people after stroke: A randomized controlled trial.

 So write this up as a protocol and deliver is to all 10 million yearly stroke survivors

now and into the future.

That would normally be the responsibility of stroke associations but we have fucking failures of stroke associations  instead, so the responsibility falls on your researchers.

 Implicit and explicit motor learning interventions have similar effects on walking speed in people after stroke: A randomized controlled trial.

Physical Therapy , Volume 101(5)

NARIC Accession Number: J86611.  What's this?
ISSN: 0031-9023.
Author(s): Jie, Li-Juan; Kleynen, Melanie Meijer, Kenneth; Beurskens, Anna ; Braun, Susy.
Publication Year: 2021.
Number of Pages: 10.

Abstract: 

Study assessed whether an implicit motor learning walking intervention is more effective compared with an explicit motor learning walking intervention delivered at home regarding walking speed in people after stroke in the chronic phase of recovery. Explicit motor learning can be referred to as a more conscious form of learning characterized by the generation of verbal knowledge and involvement of cognitive resources. In contrast, implicit motor learning is assumed to take place without much knowledge of the underlying facts and rules of motor skills. In a randomized, controlled, single-blind trial, 79 participants, who were more than 6 months post stroke, were randomly assigned to an implicit or explicit group. Analogy learning was used as the implicit motor learning walking intervention, whereas the explicit motor learning walking intervention consisted of detailed verbal instructions. Both groups received 9 training sessions (30 minutes each), for a period of 3 weeks, targeted at improving quality of walking. The primary outcome was walking speed measured by the 10-MeterWalk Test at a comfortable walking pace. Outcomes were assessed at baseline, immediately after intervention, and 1 month post intervention. No statistically or clinically relevant differences between groups were obtained postintervention (between-group difference was estimated at 0.02 meters per second (m/s) and at follow-up (between-group difference estimated at −0.02 m/s). Implicit motor learning was not superior to explicit motor learning to improve walking speed in people after stroke in the chronic phase of recovery. Results indicate that physical therapists can use implicit and explicit motor learning strategies to improve walking speed in people after stroke who are in the chronic phase of recovery.
Descriptor Terms: AMBULATION, INTERVENTION, LEARNING, MOBILITY TRAINING, MOTOR SKILLS, PHYSICAL THERAPY, STROKE.


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Citation: Jie, Li-Juan, Kleynen, Melanie Meijer, Kenneth, Beurskens, Anna , Braun, Susy. (2021). Implicit and explicit motor learning interventions have similar effects on walking speed in people after stroke: A randomized controlled trial.  Physical Therapy , 101(5) Retrieved 8/26/2021, from REHABDATA database.