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ArticleFrontiers in neurology2018

Gait Stability Training in a Virtual Environment Improves Gait and Dynamic Balance Capacity in Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury Patients.

Rosanne B van Dijsseldonk, Lysanne A F de Jong, Brenda E Groen, Marije Vos-van der Hulst, Alexander C H Geurts, Noel L W Keijsers

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Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05605912 (Efficacy of the Myosuit for Increasing Daily Life Gait Performance in the Home and Community Setting and Gait Capacity in People With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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.

NCT05605912 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Efficacy of the Myosuit for Increasing Daily Life Gait Performance in the Home and Community Setting and Gait Capacity in People With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury

TypeinterventionalSponsorSint MaartenskliniekRan2022 to 2025Enrolled34ConditionsIncomplete Spinal Cord InjuryArmsControl, Myosuit
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Rosanne B van DijsseldonkDepartment of Research, Sint Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Lysanne A F de JongDepartment of Research, Sint Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Brenda E GroenDepartment of Research, Sint Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Marije Vos-van der HulstDepartment of Rehabilitation, Sint Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Alexander C H GeurtsDepartment of Rehabilitation, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Noel L W KeijsersDepartment of Research, Sint Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Radboud University Medical Center · NLRadboud University Nijmegen · NLSint Maartenskliniek · NLSint Maartenskliniek · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many patients with incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) have impaired gait and balance capacity, which may impact daily functioning. Reduced walking speed and impaired gait stability are considered important underlying factors for reduced daily functioning. With conventional therapy, patients are limited in training gait stability, but this can be trained on a treadmill in a virtual environment, such as with the Gait Real-time Analysis Interactive Lab (GRAIL). Our objective was to evaluate the effect of 6-weeks GRAIL-training on gait and dynamic balance in ambulatory iSCI patients. In addition, the long-term effect was assessed. Fifteen patients with chronic iSCI participated. The GRAIL training consisted of 12 one-hour training sessions during a 6-week period. Patients performed 2 minute walking tests on the GRAIL in a self-paced mode at the 2nd, and 3rd (baseline measurements) and at the 12th training session. Ten patients performed an additional measurement after 6 months. The primary outcome was walking speed. Secondary outcomes were stride length, stride frequency, step width, and balance confidence. In addition, biomechanical gait stability measures based on the position of the center of mass (CoM) or the extrapolated center of mass (XCoM) relative to the center of pressure (CoP) or the base of support (BoS) were derived: dynamic stability margin (DSM), XCoM-CoP distance in anterior-posterior (AP) and medial-lateral (ML) directions, and CoM-CoP inclination angles in AP and ML directions. The effect of GRAIL-training was tested with a one-way repeated measures ANOVA (α = 0.05) and

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ambulatorybalancegaitrehabilitationspinal cord injurystabilityvirtual realitywalking

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PMCPMC6256239
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