Deans' stroke musings: Spatiotemporal strategies adopted to walk at fast speed in high- and low-functioning individuals post-stroke: A cross-sectional study

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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.

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Spatiotemporal strategies adopted to walk at fast speed in high- and low-functioning individuals post-stroke: A cross-sectional study

Until I get my spasticity cured I will never be able to walk fast or run.

Spatiotemporal strategies adopted to walk at fast speed in high- and low-functioning individuals post-stroke: A cross-sectional study

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 30(1) , Pgs. 1-10.

NARIC Accession Number: J91161. What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Bansal, Kanika; Clark, David J.; Fox, Emily J.; Conroy, Christy; Freeborn, Paul; Rose, Dorian K.
Publication Year: 2023.
Number of Pages: 10.
Abstract: Study evaluated whether stroke survivors, categorized as low-functioning group or high-functioning based on gait speed, differed in their adoption of spatiotemporal strategies from preferred to fast pace, during unsupported overground walking. Additionally, the examined whether falls efficacy (fear of falling) was associated with changes in spatiotemporal parameters from preferred to fast pace. Forty-two community-dwelling adults, 6 months to 5 years post stroke, walked across an instrumented walkway at preferred and fast speeds. Spatiotemporal asymmetry did not change for low-functioning or the high-functioning group. Fear of falling had a moderately positive correlation with change in paretic step length and change in non-paretic step length. While both low- and high-functioning individuals used a step-lengthening strategy to walk at faster-than-preferred speeds, the gain in step lengths was limited in low-functioning individuals and was partially explained by falls efficacy.
Descriptor Terms: AMBULATION, FUNCTIONAL STATUS, MOBILITY IMPAIRMENTS, REHABILITATION, STROKE.

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Citation: Bansal, Kanika, Clark, David J., Fox, Emily J., Conroy, Christy, Freeborn, Paul, Rose, Dorian K. (2023). Spatiotemporal strategies adopted to walk at fast speed in high- and low-functioning individuals post-stroke: A cross-sectional study. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 30(1), Pgs. 1-10. Retrieved 4/25/2023, from REHABDATA database.