Reply to “Perception of lower extremity loading in stroke”

As reflected by the comments of Kumar et al. (2014), there is an increasing interest in developing quantitative measurements of complex sensorimotor behaviors in people with neurologic injury or disease. In concept, our manuscript “Perception of lower extremity loads in stroke survivors” addresses one of these behaviors, which is likely to be important to gait function in stroke survivors. While we believe that impairment in load perception plays an important role in gait, Kumar et al. raise many important issues related to interpreting data from testing paradigms with higher complexity, and in extrapolating these laboratory results into a useful clinical tool.

Source: Clinical Neurophysiology - October 27, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Virginia W. Chu, T. George Hornby, Brian D. Schmit Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research