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Asymmetric Walkway: A Novel Behavioral Assay for Studying Asymmetric Locomotion

Asymmetric Walkway: A Novel Behavioral Assay for Studying Asymmetric Locomotion

Published on: January 15, 2016

Predicting Home and Community Walking Activity Poststroke.

George D Fulk¹, Ying He², Pierce Boyne²

¹From the Department of Physical Therapy (G.D.F.) and Department of Mathematics (Y.H.), Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY; and Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cincinnati, OH (P.B., K.D.). gfulk@clarkson.edu.

|January 7, 2017

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The 6-minute walk test better predicts walking ability in stroke survivors than gait speed. This finding helps accurately categorize home, limited, and full community ambulators poststroke.

Keywords:

discriminant analysis gait goal stroke walking

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Area of Science:

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Biomedical Engineering

Background:

Stroke survivors' walking ability is often categorized using gait speed metrics.
Existing gait speed categories may not accurately reflect real-world walking activity levels.

Purpose of the Study:

To reevaluate factors predicting home and community ambulation in stroke survivors.
To utilize real-world walking activity data from activity monitors for categorization.

Main Methods:

Secondary analysis of data from two stroke trials.
Development of walking categories based on daily steps: Home, limited community, and full community.
Multivariate analyses, bootstrap method, and receiver-operating characteristic analysis were used to identify predictors.

Main Results:

The 6-minute walk test, Fugl Meyer assessment, and Berg Balance Scale combined were strong predictors.
The 6-minute walk test individually predicted home vs. community (AUC=0.82) and limited vs. full community ambulation (AUC=0.76).
Comfortable gait speeds of 0.49 m/s and 0.93 m/s differentiated between categories.

Conclusions:

The 6-minute walk test is a more effective discriminator of walking categories than comfortable gait speed.
Current gait speed benchmarks may overestimate actual walking activity in stroke survivors.