ArticleJournal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation2012
Maximum walking speeds obtained using treadmill and overground robot system in persons with post-stroke hemiplegia.
Article in Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- Clinical utility of the over-ground bodyweight-supporting walking system Andago in children and youths with gait impairments.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2021Trial
- Visuotemporal cues clinically improved walking ability of ambulatory patients with spinal cord injury within 5 days.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2016Trial
- Hip flexor and ankle dorsiflexor strength associated with gait speed in post-stroke hemiparesis: Cross-sectional study.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2026Article
- Visual stimulation in automated gait rehabilitation for post-stroke patients.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Effect of freezing phenomenon on gait parameters and pedobarographic pressure distribution in patients with Parkinson's disease.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025Article
- Clinical Trials of a Stroke Rehabilitation Trainer Employing a Speed-Adapted Treadmill.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Kinematics, kinetics, and muscle activations during human locomotion over compliant terrains.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Development of split-force-controlled body weight support (SF-BWS) robot for gait rehabilitation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Effects of different types of augmented feedback on intrinsic motivation and walking speed performance in post-stroke: A study protocol.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2021Article
- Fore-aft resistance applied at the center of mass using a novel robotic interface proportionately increases propulsive force generation in healthy nonimpaired individuals walking at a constant speed.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2019Article
- The Presence of a Paretic Propulsion Reserve During Gait in Individuals Following Stroke.Neurorehabilitation and neural repair · 2018Article
- A Challenge-Based Approach to Body Weight-Supported Treadmill Training Poststroke: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2018Article
- Collaborative robotic biomechanical interactions and gait adjustments in young, non-impaired individuals.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2016Article
- Effect of progressive horizontal resistive force on the comfortable walking speed of individuals post-stroke.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2015Article
- Characteristics of horizontal force generation for individuals post-stroke walking against progressive resistive forces.Clinical biomechanics (Bristol, Avon) · 2015Article
- Effects of hippotherapy on recovery of gait and balance ability in patients with stroke.Journal of physical therapy science · 2014Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundPrevious studies demonstrated that stroke survivors have a limited capacity to increase their walking speeds beyond their self-selected maximum walking speed (SMWS). The purpose of this study was to determine the capacity of stroke survivors to reach faster speeds than their SMWS while walking on a treadmill belt or while being pushed by a robotic system (i.e. "push mode").
methodsEighteen chronic stroke survivors with hemiplegia were involved in the study. We calculated their self-selected comfortable walking speed (SCWS) and SMWS overground using a 5-meter walk test (5-MWT). Then, they were exposed to walking at increased speeds, on a treadmill and while in "push mode" in an overground robotic device, the KineAssist, until they were tested at a speed that they could not sustain without losing balance. We recorded the time and number of steps during each trial and calculated gait speed, average cadence and average step length.
resultsMaximum walking speed in the "push mode" was 13% higher than the maximum walking speed on the treadmill and both were higher ("push mode": 61%; treadmill: 40%) than the maximum walking speed overground. Subjects achieved these faster speeds by initially increasing both step length and cadence and, once individuals stopped increasing their step length, by only increasing cadence.
conclusionsWith post-stroke hemiplegia, individuals are able to walk at faster speeds than their SMWS overground, when provided with a safe environment that provides external forces that requires them to attempt dynamic stability maintenance at higher gait speeds. Therefore, this study suggests the possibility that, given the appropriate conditions, people post-stroke can be trained at higher speeds than previously attempted.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.