Supported treadmill training to establish walking in non-ambulatory patients early after stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It has been reported that only half of the non-ambulatory stroke patients admitted to inpatient rehabilitation in Australia learn to walk again 1. Treadmill walking with partial weight support via an overhead harness is a relatively new intervention that is designed to train walking. The main objective of this randomised controlled trail is to determine whether treadmill walking with partial weight support via an overhead harness is effective at establishing independent walking (i) more often, (ii) earlier and (iii) with a better quality of walking, than current physiotherapy intervention for non-ambulatory stroke patients.

Methods

A prospective, randomised controlled trial of inpatient intervention with a 6 month follow-up with blinded assessment will be conducte

SUBMITTER: Ada L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2031889 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature