Gait improvement in patients with cerebral palsy by visual and auditory feedback
| Autor: | Yoram Baram, Ruben Lenger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Movement disorders Adolescent Sensory system Cerebral palsy Young Adult Gait (human) Physical medicine and rehabilitation Gait training Feedback Sensory Medicine Humans In patient Child Gait Balance (ability) Auditory feedback business.industry Cerebral Palsy Motor control General Medicine medicine.disease Preferred walking speed Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Neurology Acoustic Stimulation Child Preschool Female Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom Cues Psychology business human activities Psychomotor Performance |
| Zdroj: | Neuromodulation : journal of the International Neuromodulation Society. 15(1) |
| ISSN: | 1525-1403 |
| Popis: | Objectives: To study the effects of gait training with visual and auditory feedback cues on the walking abilities of patients with gait disorders due to cerebral palsy. Materials and Methods: Visual and auditory feedback cues were generated by a wearable device, driven by inertial sensors. Ten randomly selected patients with gait disorders due to cerebral palsy and seven age-matched healthy individuals trained with visual feedback cues, while ten patients and eight age-matched healthy individuals trained with auditory feedback cues. Baseline performance (walking speed and stride length along a 10-m straight track) was measured before device use. Following 20-min training with the device and a 20-min break, performance without the device was measured again and compared with the baseline performance. Results: For the patients who trained with visual feedback, the average improvement was 21.70% ± 36.06% in the walking speed and 8.72% ± 9.47% in the stride length. For the patients who trained with auditory feedback, the average improvement was 25.43% ± 28.65% in the walking speed and 13.58% ± 13.10% in the stride length. For the healthy individuals who trained with visual feedback, the average improvement was −2.41% ± 9.54% in the walking speed and −2.84% ± 10.11% in the stride length. For the healthy individuals who trained with auditory feedback, the average improvement was 0.01% ± 7.73% in the walking speed and −2.03% ± 6.15% in the stride length. Conclusions: Training with visual and auditory feedback cues can improve gait parameters in patients with gait disorders due to cerebral palsy. This was contrasted by no improvement in age-matched healthy individuals. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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