Effect of combined home-based, overground robotic-assisted gait training and usual physiotherapy on clinical functional outcomes in people with chronic stroke: A randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the effect of a home-based over-ground robotic-assisted gait training program using the AlterG Bionic Leg orthosis on clinical functional outcomes in people with chronic stroke.

Design

Randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Home.

Participants

Thirty-four ambulatory chronic stroke patients who recieve usual physiotherapy.

Intervention

Usual physiotherapy plus either (1)10-week over-ground robotic-assisted gait training program (n = 16), using the device for ⩾30 minutes per day, or (2) control group (n = 18), 30 minutes of physical activity per day.

Measurements

The primary outcome was the Six-Minute Walk Test. Secondary outcomes included: Timed-Up-and-Go, Functional Ambulation Categories, Dynamic Gait Index and Berg

SUBMITTER: Wright A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8191155 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature