Predictors indicating the continuous need for a knee-ankle-foot orthosis in stroke patients at 1 month after onset.

Objectives: To investigate predictors indicating the continuous need for a knee-ankle-foot orthosis (KAFO) at 1 month after stroke onset in patients who cannot walk without a KAFO in the acute period.

Materials And Methods: We enrolled patients with severe hemiplegia (n = 139) who were unable to walk without a KAFO on day 10 from stroke onset. The patients were divided into two groups depending on the need for a KAFO at 1 month after the onset: the KAFO group and non-KAFO group.

Effects of postural-control training with different sensory reweightings in a patient with body lateropulsion: a single-subject design study.

Introduction: Body lateropulsion (BL) is an active lateral tilt of the body during standing or walking that is thought to be affected by a lesion of the vestibulospinal tract (VST) and the subjective visual vertical (SVV) tilt. Interventions for BL have not been established.

Objective: We examined the effects of postural-control training with different sensory reweighting on standing postural control in a patient with BL.

Lower limb muscle strength of the affected side in stroke patients is an accurate predictor of the need for a KAFO.

Background: Accurate prediction of recovery is essential to determine whether a knee-ankle-foot orthosis (KAFO) is required in the subacute phase of stroke. However, there are currently no reliable methods to predict such recovery.

Objective: This study aimed to determine whether muscle strength of the affected lower limb (affected side LL strength) in stroke patients in the subacute phase who cannot walk without a KAFO can be used to predict the continuous need for a KAFO, using a hand-held dynamometer.

A Narrative Review of Alternate Gait Training Using Knee-ankle-foot Orthosis in Stroke Patients with Severe Hemiparesis.

Impairments resulting from stroke lead to persistent difficulties with walking. Subsequently, an improved walking ability is one of the highest priorities for people living with stroke. The degree to which gait can be restored after a stroke is related to both the initial impairment in walking ability and the severity of paresis of the lower extremities.

Role of somatosensory and/or vestibular sensory information in subjective postural vertical in healthy adults.

The body's subjective postural vertical (SPV) has been thought to be affected by somatosensory information. How the SPV is perceived based on what types of somatosensory information has not been determined experimentally by manipulating somatosensory conditions. We investigated the effects of disturbing the somatosensory information from a seat pad and/or vestibular sensory information on the SPV in 15 healthy adults.