Do clinical assessments, steady-state or daily-life gait characteristics predict falls in ambulatory chronic stroke survivors?

CONCLUSION: Independent of the type of gait assessment, qualitative gait characteristics are better fall predictors than clinical assessments. Clinicians should therefore consider gait analyses as an alternative for identifying fall-prone stroke survivors. PMID: 28475196 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28475196?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine - May 7, 2017 Category: Rehabilitation Tags: J Rehabil Med Source Type: research