Locomotor Trajectories of Stroke Patients during Oriented Gait and Turning.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Timed Up and Go (TUG) test is widely used to assess locomotion in patients with stroke and is considered to predict the risk of falls. The analysis of locomotor trajectories during the TUG appears pertinent in stroke patients. The aims of this study were i) to analyze locomotor trajectories in patients with stroke during the walking and turning sub-tasks of the TUG, and to compare them with healthy subjects, ii) to determine whether trajectory parameters provide additional information to that provided by the conventional measure (performance time), iii) to compare the trajectory parameters of fallers and non-fallers with stroke and of patients with right and left hemisphere stroke, and iv) to evaluate correlations between trajectory parameters and Berg Balance Scale

SUBMITTER: Bonnyaud C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4760702 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature