TY - JOUR A2 - Bernhardt, Julie A. AU - Iosa, M. AU - Morone, G. AU - Fusco, A. AU - Pratesi, L. AU - Bragoni, M. AU - Coiro, P. AU - Multari, M. AU - Venturiero, V. AU - De Angelis, D. AU - Paolucci, S. PY - 2012 DA - 2011/09/28 TI - Effects of Walking Endurance Reduction on Gait Stability in Patients with Stroke SP - 810415 VL - 2012 AB - Control of gait is usually altered following stroke, and it may be further compromised by overexertion and fatigue. This study aims to quantitatively assess patients' gait stability during six-minute walking, measuring upper body accelerations of twenty patients with stroke (
64
±
13
years old) and ten age-matched healthy subjects (
63
±
10
years old). Healthy subjects showed a steady gait in terms of speed and accelerations over the six minutes. Conversely, the patients unable to complete the test (
n
=
8
) progressively reduced their walking speed (−
22
±
11
%, confidence interval CI95%: −13, −29%,
P
=
0.046
)。Patients able to complete the test (
n
=
12
) did not vary their walking speed over time (
P
=
0.493
)。However, this ability was not supported by an adequate capacity to maintain their gait stability, as shown by a progressive increase of their upper body accelerations (+
5
±
11
%, CI95%: −1; +12%,
P
=
0.010
)。耐力和行走步态的稳定性be both quantitatively assessed and carefully improved during the rehabilitation of patients with stroke. SN - 2090-8105 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/810415 DO - 10.1155/2012/810415 JF - Stroke Research and Treatment PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation KW - ER -