Publications by authors named "Claudia Ritschel"
Reliability and validity of the functional gait assessment (German version) in subacute stroke patients.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil
September 2009
Objective: To investigate validity and reliability of the Functional Gait Assessment (FGA) (German version) as a measure for balance abilities during walking in subacute stroke patients.
Design: Cohort study.
Setting: Inpatient rehabilitation center.
Objective: To compare the improvement and complication rate between a technique using a short casting interval and a more conventional changing interval.
Design: A retrospective case-comparison study.
Setting: A rehabilitation center for adults with neurologic disorders.
Background And Purpose: A new gait training strategy for patients with stroke seeks to increase walking speed through treadmill training. This study compares the effects of structured speed-dependent treadmill training (STT) (with the use of an interval paradigm to increase the treadmill speed stepwise according to principles of sport physiology) with limited progressive treadmill training (LTT) and conventional gait training (CGT) on clinical outcome measures for patients with hemiparesis.
Methods: Sixty ambulatory poststroke patients were each randomly selected to receive 1 of the 3 different gait therapies: 20 subjects were treated with STT, 20 subjects were trained to walk on a treadmill with a 20% increase of belt speed over the treatment period (LTT), and 20 subjects were treated with CGT.