Posterior fall-recovery training applied to individuals with chronic stroke: A single-group intervention study.

Background: To assess the effects of the initial stepping limb on posterior fall recovery in individuals with chronic stroke, as well as to determine the benefits of fall-recovery training on these outcomes.

Methods: This was a single-group intervention study of 13 individuals with chronic stroke. Participants performed up to six training sessions, each including progressively challenging, treadmill-induced perturbations from a standing position.

Relationships of Linear and Non-linear Measurements of Post-stroke Walking Activity and Their Relationship to Weather.

Stroke survivors are more sedentary than the general public. Previous research on stroke activity focuses on linear quantities. Non-linear measures, such as Jensen-Shannon Divergence and Lempel-Ziv Complexity, may help explain when and how stroke survivors move so that interventions to increase activity may be designed more effectively.

Anterior fall-recovery training applied to individuals with chronic stroke.

Background: To study the effects of the initial stepping limb on anterior fall-recovery performance and kinematics, as well as to determine the benefits of fall-recovery training on those outcomes in individuals with chronic stroke.

Methods: Single-group intervention of 15 individuals with chronic stroke who performed up to six sessions of fall-recovery training. Each session consisted of two progressions of treadmill-induced perturbations to induce anterior falls from a standing position.

The development and feasibility of treadmill-induced fall recovery training applied to individuals with chronic stroke.

Background: Exercise has failed to reduce falls in those with chronic stroke. A limitation of traditional exercise is that the motor responses needed to prevent a fall are not elicited (i.e.

Relationship Between Walking Capacity, Biopsychosocial Factors, Self-efficacy, and Walking Activity in Persons Poststroke.

Background/purpose: Many factors appear to be related to physical activity after stroke, yet it is unclear how these factors interact and which ones might be the best predictors. Therefore, the purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to examine the relationship between walking capacity and walking activity, and (2) to investigate how biopsychosocial factors and self-efficacy relate to walking activity, above and beyond walking capacity impairment poststroke.

Methods: Individuals greater than 3 months poststroke (n = 55) completed the Yesavage Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS), Modified Cumulative Illness Rating (MCIR) Scale, Walk 12, Activities-Specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale, Functional Gait Assessment (FGA), and oxygen consumption testing.

Maximum walking speed is a key determinant of long distance walking function after stroke.

Background: Walking dysfunctions persist following poststroke rehabilitation. A major limitation of current rehabilitation efforts is the inability to identify modifiable deficits that, when improved, will result in the recovery of walking function. Previous studies have relied on cross-sectional analyses to identify deficits to target during walking rehabilitation; however, these studies did not account for the influence of a key covariate - maximum walking speed.