Anterior fall-recovery training applied to individuals with chronic stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To study the effects of the initial stepping limb on anterior fall-recovery performance and kinematics, as well as to determine the benefits of fall-recovery training on those outcomes in individuals with chronic stroke.

Methods

Single-group intervention of 15 individuals with chronic stroke who performed up to six sessions of fall-recovery training. Each session consisted of two progressions of treadmill-induced perturbations to induce anterior falls from a standing position. Progressions focused on initial steps with the paretic or non-paretic limb. Fall-recovery performance (the highest disturbance level achieved and the proportion of successful recoveries), as well as step and trunk kinematics were compared between the initial stepping limbs on the first sessi

SUBMITTER: Pigman J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6823156 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature