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Body weight-supported treadmill training versus conventional gait training for people with chronic traumatic brain
Tracy H Brown1, Julie Mount, Bethany L Rouland
1Department of Physical Therapy, Beechwood Rehabilitation Services, Langhorne, PA 19047, USA.
Objectives:
To compare body weight support treadmill training (BWSTT) to conventional overground gait training (COGT).
Design:
Randomized controlled trial.
Setting:
Residential rehabilitation center.
Participants:
Twenty subjects with chronic traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Intervention:
The BWSTT or COGT for 15 minutes plus 30 minutes of exercise 2 days per week, for 3 months.
Main Outcome Measures:
Functional Ambulation Category (FAC), Functional Reach (FR), Timed Up and Go; gait velocity, step width (BOS) and step length differential using instrumented gait mat.
Results:
Step width approached the norm without between-group differences. Step length differential improved significantly more for the COGT.
Conclusions:
Physical therapy can improve gait for patients more than 6 years post-TBI. The COGT is more effective than the BWSTT for improving gait symmetry during overground walking.
