Treadmill Handrail-Use Increases the Anteroposterior Margin of Stability in Individuals' Post-Stroke.

Treadmills are important rehabilitation tools used with or without handrails. The handrails could be used to attain balance, prevent falls, and improve the walking biomechanics of stroke survivors, but it is yet unclear how the treadmill handrails impact their stability margins. Here, we investigated how 3 treadmill handrail-use conditions (no-hold, self-selected support, and light touch) impact stroke survivors' margins of stability (MoS).

Comparison of markerless and marker-based motion capture of gait kinematics in individuals with cerebral palsy and chronic stroke: A case study series.

Background: Three-dimensional (3D) motion analysis is an advanced tool used to quantify movement patterns in adults with chronic stroke and children with cerebral palsy. However, gold-standard marker-based systems have limitations for implementation in clinical settings. Markerless motion capture using may provide a more accessible and clinically feasible alternative, but its accuracy is unknown in clinical populations.