Meaningful gait speed improvement during the first 60 days poststroke: minimal clinically important difference.

ABSTRACT:

Background

When people with stroke recover gait speed, they report improved function and reduced disability. However, the minimal amount of change in gait speed that is clinically meaningful and associated with an important difference in function for people poststroke has not been determined.

Objective

The purpose of this study was to determine the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for comfortable gait speed (CGS) associated with an improvement in the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score for people between 20 to 60 days poststroke.

Design

This was a prospective, longitudinal, cohort study.

Methods

The participants in this study were 283 people with first-time stroke prospectively enrolled in the ongoing Locomotor Experience Applied Post Stroke (LEAPS)

SUBMITTER: Tilson JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2816032 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature