Dual-task walking and automaticity after Stroke: Insights from a secondary analysis and imaging sub-study of a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test the extent to which initial walking speed influences dual-task performance after walking intervention, hypothesising that slow walking speed affects automatic gait control, limiting executive resource availability.

Design

A secondary analysis of a trial of dual-task (DT) and single-task (ST) walking interventions comparing those with good (walking speed ⩾0.8 m s^-1, n = 21) and limited (walking speed <0.79 m s^-1, n = 24) capacity at baseline.

Setting

Community.

Subjects

Adults six-months post stroke with walking impairment.

Interventions

Twenty sessions of 30 minutes treadmill walking over 10 weeks with (DT) or without (ST) cognitive distraction. Good and limited groups were

SUBMITTER: Collett J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8524683 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature