Wearable gait device for stroke gait rehabilitation at home

This has been out there for years, doesn't your stroke hospital already have it?Or are you OK with your hospital being incompetent?

• Moterum iStride (2 posts to March 2019)

Wearable gait device for stroke gait rehabilitation at home

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , Volume 28(6) , Pgs. 443-454.

NARIC Accession Number: J87256.  What's this?
ISSN: 1074-9357.
Author(s): Huizenga, David ; Rashford, Lauren ; Darcy, Brianne ; Lundin, Elizabeth ; Medas, Ryan ; Shultz, S. Tyler ; DuBose, Elizabeth ; Reed, Kyle B..
Publication Year: 2021.
Number of Pages: 12.

Abstract: 

 Study investigated whether using the iStride gait device within the home environment can provide safe and effective gait treatment for individuals with hemiparetic gait impairments caused by stroke. The device is worn over the shoe on the non-paretic foot during overground ambulation. Twelve 30-minute sessions of walking on the device were administered in each participant’s home environment. Twenty-one participants who were more than one-year post-stroke received the treatment. The Ten-Meter Walk Test, Timed Up and Go Test, Berg Balance Scale, Functional Gait Assessment, and Stroke Specific Quality of Life Scale were performed before and one week after treatment. Safety, treatment plan compliance, and subjective responses were also recorded during the study period. Results demonstrated significant improvement on all five outcome measures from before treatment to one week after the last treatment session using two-tailed paired t-tests. Seventy-six percent of participants improved beyond the small meaningful change or minimal detectable change on three or more outcome measures. Sixty-seven percent of participants improved clinically in gait speed and on at least one of the fall risk assessment inventories. Eighty-one percent of the participants were able to perform the treatment in their home without assistance before the end of week three. Findings suggest that the iStride gait device can facilitate effective, safe, and home-accessible gait treatment opportunities for individuals with hemiparesis from stroke.
Descriptor Terms: AMBULATION, DEVICES EVALUATION, HEMIPLEGIA, HOME BASED, MOBILITY AIDS, MOBILITY TRAINING, ORTHOTICS, REHABILITATION TECHNOLOGY, STROKE.


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Citation: Huizenga, David , Rashford, Lauren , Darcy, Brianne , Lundin, Elizabeth , Medas, Ryan , Shultz, S. Tyler , DuBose, Elizabeth , Reed, Kyle B.. (2021). Wearable gait device for stroke gait rehabilitation at home.  Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation , 28(6), Pgs. 443-454. Retrieved 10/23/2021, from REHABDATA database.