1988•The Tohoku Journal of Experimental MedicineOpen access
Walking cycle after stroke.
Ryuichi Nakamura, T. Handa, Sayuri Watanabe, Isamu Morohashi
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Abstract
NAKAMURA, R., HANDA, T., WATANABE, S. and MOROHASHI, I. Walking Cycle after Stroke. Tohoku J. exp. Med., 1988, 154 (3), 241-244-Temporal-distance parameters of gait, maximum walking speed, walking rate and stride length, were successively examined in 10 hemiparetic stroke patients for 8 weeks after starting gait training. In patients with walking speed less than 20m/min i.e., walking rate less than 90 steps/min, the increase of walking speed was significantly related to that of walking rate and stride length. In patients with walking speed greater than 20m/min, the increase of walking speed correlated only to that of stride length, indicating that a limiting factor of walking speed in hemiparetic patients was the decreased stride length.
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