Gait training with hybrid assistive limb enhances the gait functions in subacute stroke patients: A pilot study

There are many assistive walking devices. You'll have to ask your doctor what the results were for all the other ones.  3 posts on wallking assist, bet your doctor knows none of them.
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NeuroRehabilitation , Volume 40(1) , Pgs. 87-97.

NARIC Accession Number: J76229.  What's this?
ISSN: 1053-8135.
Author(s): Yoshikawa, Kenichi; Mizukami, Masafumi; Kawamoto, Hiroaki; Sano, Ayumu; Koseki, Kazunori; Sano, Kumiko; Asakawa, Yasutsugu; Kohno, Yutaka; Nakai, Kei; Gosho, Masahiko; Tsurushima, Hideo.
Publication Year: 2017.
Number of Pages: 11.
Abstract: Study examined the effects of gait training with the Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) on walking ability by HAL and determined the most effective improvement measure for use in future large-scale trials. HAL is a wearable robot that interactively provides motion according to the wearer’s voluntary activity. Sixteen first-ever hemiplegic stroke patients completed at least 20 sessions over 5 weeks. Per session, the experimental group received no more than 20 minutes of gait training with HAL and 40 minutes of conventional physiotherapy, whereas the control group received at least 60 minutes of conventional physiotherapy. The primary outcome was maximum walking speed (MWS). The HAL group had a significantly greater increase in MWS than the control group during the intervention period. The change in MWS from baseline at week 5 was 11.6 meters per minute for the HAL group and 2.2 meters per minute for control subjects. In HAL subjects there were significant increases in self-selected walking speed (SWS; a secondary outcome) and in step length (a secondary outcome) at MWS and SWS compared with controls. Training with HAL improved walking speed in hemiplegic sub-acute stroke patients.
Descriptor Terms: AMBULATION, MOBILITY TRAINING, REHABILITATION TECHNOLOGY, ROBOTICS, STROKE, SUBACUTE CARE.


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Citation: Yoshikawa, Kenichi, Mizukami, Masafumi, Kawamoto, Hiroaki, Sano, Ayumu, Koseki, Kazunori, Sano, Kumiko, Asakawa, Yasutsugu, Kohno, Yutaka, Nakai, Kei, Gosho, Masahiko, Tsurushima, Hideo. (2017). Gait training with hybrid assistive limb enhances the gait functions in subacute stroke patients: A pilot study.  NeuroRehabilitation , 40(1), Pgs. 87-97. Retrieved 7/14/2017, from REHABDATA database.