Gait Analysis of Hemiparetic Adult Patients with a Quadripod Cane and a Rolling Cane.

ABSTRACT: Stroke consequences include hemiparesis and difficulty walking. Several types of canes exist to overcome these alterations, but little data compares the quadripod cane and the rolling cane in hemiparetic patients. The objective of this work is twofold: to determine whether the gait speed-the most often used parameter to assess gait performance-depends on the type of cane, and to establish which spatiotemporal parameters have the most influence. Thirty-four hemiparetic patients performed 10 m walking tests at comfortable and fast speed conditions, using both canes on two different days. To objectively analyze their gait patterns, we used a tri-axial Inertial Measurement Units (IMU)-based system to record the walking signals from which we extracted the gait spatiotemporal parameters. We part

SUBMITTER: Maillard B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10888135 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature