Effects of overground gait training assisted by a wearable exoskeleton in patients with Parkinson's disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the recent past, wearable devices have been used for gait rehabilitation in patients with Parkinson's disease. The objective of this paper is to analyze the outcome of a wearable hip orthosis whose assistance adapts in real time to the patient's gait kinematics via adaptive oscillators. In particular, this study focuses on a metric characterizing natural gait variability, i.e., the level of long-range autocorrelations (LRA) in series of stride durations.

Methods

Eight patients with Parkinson's disease (Hoehn and Yahr stages 1[Formula: see text]2.5) performed overground gait training three times per week for four consecutive weeks, assisted by a wearable hip orthosis. Gait was assessed based on performance metrics such as the hip range of motion, speed, stride l

SUBMITTER: Otlet V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10655429 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature