A simple, clinically applicable motor learning protocol to increase push-off during gait: A proof-of-concept.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Task-specific training is often used in functional rehabilitation for its potential to improve performance at locomotor tasks in neurological populations. As push-off impairment are often seen with these patients, this functional approach shows potential to retrain gait overground to normalize the gait pattern and retrain the ability to improve gait speed. The main objective of this project was to validate, in healthy participants, a simple, low-cost push-off retraining protocol based on task-specific training that could be implemented during overground walking in the clinic.

Methods

30 healthy participants walked in an 80-meter long corridor before, during, and after the application of an elastic resistance to the right ankle. Elastic tubing attached to the front

SUBMITTER: Bertrand-Charette M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7815130 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature