Two-Month Individually Supervised Exercise Therapy Improves Walking Speed, Step Length, and Temporal Gait Symmetry in Chronic Stroke Patients: A before–after Trial
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Design and Subjects
2.2. Intervention
2.3. Measurement and Analysis
2.4. Statistical Analysis
2.5. Ethical Considerations
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Characteristics | |
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n | 25 |
Sex (male/female) | 18/7 |
Age (years) | 61.9 ± 11.1 |
Type of stroke (infraction/hemorrhage) | 13/12 |
Paretic side (left/right) | 18/7 |
Median period from onset (months) | 19 (range: 6 to 192) |
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Yoshioka, K.; Watanabe, T.; Maruyama, N.; Yoshioka, M.; Iino, K.; Honda, K.; Hayashida, K. Two-Month Individually Supervised Exercise Therapy Improves Walking Speed, Step Length, and Temporal Gait Symmetry in Chronic Stroke Patients: A before–after Trial. Healthcare 2022, 10, 527. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10030527
Yoshioka K, Watanabe T, Maruyama N, Yoshioka M, Iino K, Honda K, Hayashida K. Two-Month Individually Supervised Exercise Therapy Improves Walking Speed, Step Length, and Temporal Gait Symmetry in Chronic Stroke Patients: A before–after Trial. Healthcare. 2022; 10(3):527. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10030527
Chicago/Turabian StyleYoshioka, Kiyoshi, Tatsunori Watanabe, Norikazu Maruyama, Mizuki Yoshioka, Keita Iino, Kimikazu Honda, and Koshiro Hayashida. 2022. "Two-Month Individually Supervised Exercise Therapy Improves Walking Speed, Step Length, and Temporal Gait Symmetry in Chronic Stroke Patients: A before–after Trial" Healthcare 10, no. 3: 527. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10030527