Feasibility of robot-based perturbed-balance training during treadmill walking in a high-functioning chronic stroke subject: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For stroke survivors, balance deficits that persist after the completion of the rehabilitation process lead to a significant risk of falls. We have recently developed a balance-assessment robot (BAR-TM) that enables assessment of balancing abilities during walking. The purpose of this study was to test feasibility of using the BAR-TM in an experimental perturbed-balance training program with a selected high-functioning stroke survivor.

Methods

A control and an individual with right-side chronic hemiparesis post-stroke were studied. The individual post-stroke underwent thirty sessions of balance-perturbed training that involved walking on an instrumented treadmill while the BAR-TM delivered random pushes to the participant's pelvis; these pushes were in various dir

SUBMITTER: Matjacic Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5896154 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature