Increases in overground gait speed with body weight support in people post-stroke

Jamie K. Burgess; Gwendolyn Weibel; David A. Brown

doi:10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209530

Increases in overground gait speed with body weight support in people post-stroke

Jamie K. Burgess, Gwendolyn Weibel, David A. Brown

Orthopaedic Surgery

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Abstract

We studied the effect of body weight support on self-selected overground walking speed in both healthy elderly subjects and subjects post-stroke using the KineAssist, a novel robotic gait and balance device. Body weight support is provided by the robot via a closed-loop system that provides support about the subject's estimated center of mass. Body weight support was tested at 10%, 20%, 30% and 40% of the subject's weight. We found that selfselected walking speed decreased with greater levels of body weight support for the healthy elderly subjects. However, the subjects post stroke showed an average increase of 18% in self-selected walking speed at some level of body weight support compared with no body weight support while walking in the KineAssist. Gait speed increases corresponded to an increase in step length. There appears to be a benefit to overground walking speed when providing a small percentage of body weight support for people post-stroke.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2009
Pages	401-406
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209530
State	Published - 2009
Event	2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2009 - Kyoto, Japan Duration: Jun 23 2009 → Jun 26 2009

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Other	2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2009
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Kyoto
Period	6/23/09 → 6/26/09

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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Burgess, JK, Weibel, G & Brown, DA 2009, Increases in overground gait speed with body weight support in people post-stroke. in 2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2009., 5209530, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2009, pp. 401-406, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2009, Kyoto, Japan, 6/23/09. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209530

Increases in overground gait speed with body weight support in people post-stroke. / Burgess, Jamie K.; Weibel, Gwendolyn; Brown, David A.
2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2009. 2009. p. 401-406 5209530 (2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2009).

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