Deans' stroke musings: The effect of split-belt treadmill interventions on step length asymmetry in individuals poststroke: A systematic review with meta-analysis

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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.

Sunday, September 26, 2021

The effect of split-belt treadmill interventions on step length asymmetry in individuals poststroke: A systematic review with meta-analysis

Well shit, hasn't split belt treadmills been proven for years already?

split-belt treadmill (9 posts to May 2013)

The effect of split-belt treadmill interventions on step length asymmetry in individuals poststroke: A systematic review with meta-analysis

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (NNR) , Volume 35(7) , Pgs. 563-575.

NARIC Accession Number: J86907. What's this?
ISSN: 1545-9683.
Author(s): Dzewaltowski, Alex C. ; Hedrick, Erica A. ; Leutzinger, Todd J. ; Remski, Lindsey E. ; Rosen, Adam B..
Publication Year: 2021.
Number of Pages: 13.
Abstract:

Study evaluated the methods and results of existing studies that investigated the effects of split-belt treadmill training on step-length asymmetry in individuals poststroke both during and following training. A comprehensive search of PubMed/MEDLINE, CINAHL, Web of Science, and Scopus was conducted to find peer-reviewed journal articles that included stroke survivors who participated in a split-belt treadmill walking intervention. Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) was used to assess risk of bias. Pooled Hedge’s g with random effects models were used to estimate the effect of split-belt training on step-length symmetry. Twenty-one studies were included in the systematic review with 11 of them included in the meta-analysis. Included studies had an average STROBE score of 16.2. The pooled effects for step-length asymmetry from baseline to late adaptation were not significant (g = 0.060). Large, significant effects were found at post training after a single session (g = 1.04), post training after multiple sessions (g = −0.70), and follow-up (g = −0.718). Results indicate split-belt treadmill training with the shorter step length on the fast belt has the potential to improve step-length symmetry post stroke when long-term training is implemented, but randomized controlled trials are needed to confirm the efficacy of split-belt treadmill training.
Descriptor Terms: AMBULATION, LITERATURE REVIEWS, MOBILITY TRAINING, REHABILITATION TECHNOLOGY, STROKE.

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Citation: Dzewaltowski, Alex C. , Hedrick, Erica A. , Leutzinger, Todd J. , Remski, Lindsey E. , Rosen, Adam B.. (2021). The effect of split-belt treadmill interventions on step length asymmetry in individuals poststroke: A systematic review with meta-analysis. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (NNR) , 35(7), Pgs. 563-575. Retrieved 9/26/2021, from REHABDATA database.