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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2014

Feasibility of visual instrumented movement feedback therapy in individuals with motor incomplete spinal cord injury walking on a treadmill.

Daniel Schliessmann, Christian Schuld, Matthias Schneiders, Steffen Derlien, Maria Glöckner, Till Gladow, Norbert Weidner, Rüdiger Rupp

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Daniel SchliessmannExperimental Neurorehabilitation, Spinal Cord Injury Center, Heidelberg University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
Christian SchuldExperimental Neurorehabilitation, Spinal Cord Injury Center, Heidelberg University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
Matthias SchneidersExperimental Neurorehabilitation, Spinal Cord Injury Center, Heidelberg University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
Steffen DerlienInstitut für Physiotherapie, University Hospital Jena Jena, Germany.
Maria GlöcknerInstitut für Physiotherapie, University Hospital Jena Jena, Germany.
Till GladowHASOMED GmbH Magdeburg, Germany.
Norbert WeidnerExperimental Neurorehabilitation, Spinal Cord Injury Center, Heidelberg University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
Rüdiger RuppExperimental Neurorehabilitation, Spinal Cord Injury Center, Heidelberg University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.

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Abstract

backgroundIncomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) leads to motor and sensory deficits. Even in ambulatory persons with good motor function an impaired proprioception may result in an insecure gait. Limited internal afferent feedback (FB) can be compensated by provision of external FB by therapists or technical systems. Progress in computational power of motion analysis systems allows for implementation of instrumented real-time FB. The aim of this study was to test if individuals with iSCI can normalize their gait kinematics during FB and more importantly maintain an improvement after therapy.

methodsIndividuals with chronic iSCI had to complete 6 days (1 day per week) of treadmill-based FB training with a 2 weeks pause after 3 days of training. Each day consists of an initial gait analysis followed by 2 blocks with FB/no-FB. During FB the deviation of the mean knee angle during swing from a speed matched reference (norm distance, ND) is visualized as a number. The task consists of lowering the ND, which was updated after every stride. Prior to the tests in patients the in-house developed FB implementation was tested in healthy subjects with an artificial movement task.

resultsFour of five study participants benefited from FB in the short and medium term. Decrease of mean ND was highest during the first 3 sessions (from 3.93 ± 1.54 to 2.18 ± 1.04). After the pause mean ND stayed in the same range than before. In the last 3 sessions the mean ND decreased slower (2.40 ± 1.18 to 2.20 ± 0.90). Direct influences of FB ranged from 60 to 15% of reduction in mean ND compared to initial gait analysis and from 20 to 1% compared to no-FB sessions.

conclusionsInstrumented kinematic real-time FB may serve as an effective adjunct to established gait therapies in normalizing the gait pattern after incomplete spinal cord injury. Further studies with larger patient groups need to prove long term learning and the successful transfer of newly acquired skills to activities of daily living.

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gait rehabilitationmotion analysismotor learningproprioceptionspinal cord injurytreadmillvisual realtime feedback

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PMCPMC4060051

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