Clinical application of backward walking training to improve walking function, balance, and fall-risk in acute stroke: A case series

And your mentors and senior researchers incompetently didn't tell you that this research was already done?

Other research already out there: I bet your doctor and stroke hospital  are totally incompetent in not having this intervention already being used. My god, 13 and 14 years ago this research came out, bet your doctor doesn't even know about it.

Gait outcomes after additional backward walking training in patients with stroke: a randomized controlled trial - May 2005

Effectiveness of backward walking treadmill training in lower extremity function after stroke - Oct. 2006

“A Backward Walking Training Program to Improve Balance and Mobility in Acute Stroke: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial” Oct. 2017 

Walking backwards boosts creativity April 2015

The latest here:

 

Clinical application of backward walking training to improve walking function, balance, and fall-risk in acute stroke: A case series

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 26(7) , Pgs. 497-502.

NARIC Accession Number: J81923.  What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): DeMark, Louis; Fox, Emily J.; Spigel, Pamela M.; Osborne, Jacqueline; Rose, Dorian K..
Publication Year: 2019.
Number of Pages: 6.
Abstract: Study examined the effects of adding a backward walking (BW) training program to standard inpatient rehabilitation (IR) care on balance, walking ability, and fall-risk in adults less than 2 weeks post stroke. Eight patients with first-time stroke participated in 3 hours of rehabilitation a day that included 1 hour of physical therapy. BW training was provided as an additional 20 minutes to their daily 1-hour physical therapy session for the first 10 treatment sessions of their IR stay. Standard outcome measures were used to assess balance, walking ability, and fall-risk at admission and post-intervention. All eight patients demonstrated improvements in all outcomes with a clinically meaningful increase in forward walking speed, as measured by the 10-Minute Walk Test. Four participants exceeded fall-risk cutoff scores for all balance-related outcome measures. These results suggest that this unique training program may be beneficial very early on after stroke for improving outcomes with patient characteristics commonly seen in IR.
Descriptor Terms: AMBULATION, EQUILIBRIUM, MOBILITY TRAINING, OUTCOMES, PHYSICAL THERAPY, POSTURE, REHABILITATION SERVICES, STROKE.


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Citation: DeMark, Louis, Fox, Emily J., Spigel, Pamela M., Osborne, Jacqueline, Rose, Dorian K.. (2019). Clinical application of backward walking training to improve walking function, balance, and fall-risk in acute stroke: A case series.  Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 26(7), Pgs. 497-502. Retrieved 11/22/2019, from REHABDATA database.