Can prior exposure to repeated non-paretic slips improve reactive responses on novel paretic slips among people with chronic stroke?

ABSTRACT: This study examined if people with chronic stroke (PwCS) could adapt following non-paretic overground gait-slips and whether such prior exposure to non-paretic slips could improve reactive responses on novel paretic slip. Forty-nine PwCS were randomly assigned to either adaptation group, which received eight unexpected, overground, nonparetic-side gait-slips followed by two paretic-side slips or a control group, which received two paretic-side slips. Slip outcome, recovery strategies, center of mass (CoM) state stability, post-slip stride length and slipping kinematics were analyzed. The adaptation group demonstrated fall-reduction from first to eighth non-paretic slips, along with improved stability, stride length and slipping kinematics (p < 0.05). Within the adaptation group, on compari

SUBMITTER: Dusane S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9290783 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature