Lower limb muscle performance during a closed chain single leg squat and a squat jump in people with leg weakness after stroke: A comparative study.

Objective: To determine if the intention to perform an exercise at speed leads to beneficial alterations in kinematic and kinetic components of the movement in people with post-stroke hemiplegia.

Design: Comparative study.

Setting: Subacute metropolitan rehabilitation hospital.

Strength training to improve walking after stroke: how physiotherapist, patient and workplace factors influence exercise prescription.

Muscle weakness is well established as the primary impairment that affects walking after stroke and strength training is an effective intervention to improve this muscle weakness. Observation of clinical practice however has highlighted an evidence-practice gap in the implementation of evidence-based strength training guidelines. : To explore perceived barriers and facilitators that influence Australian physiotherapy practices when prescribing strength training with stroke survivors undergoing gait rehabilitation.

Associations between lower limb strength and gait velocity following stroke: a systematic review.

Objective: The aim of this systematic review was to identify literature examining associations between isometric strength and gait velocity following stroke.

Methods: An electronic search was performed using six online databases. Targeted searching of reference lists of included articles and three relevant journals was also performed.