Dual-Task Abilities During Activities Representative of Daily Life in Community-Dwelling Stroke Survivors: A Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In addition to several physical skills, being able to walk in the community, walking independently and safely in the community requires the ability to divide attention between walking and other tasks performed simultaneously. The aims of the present pilot study were to measure cognitive-locomotor dual-task (DT) abilities during activities representative of daily living in stroke survivors and to compare them with age- and gender-matched healthy individuals.

Methods

To assess DT abilities, all participants walked along a virtual shopping mall corridor and memorized a 5-item shopping list. Two levels of task complexity were used for the walking task (with or without virtual agents to avoid) and the cognitive task to recall a list of items (with or without a modifica

SUBMITTER: Deblock-Bellamy A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9110886 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature