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<italic>Study aim</italic>: To check if the short rehabilitation treatment (3 weeks) complemented by complex rehabilitation on advanced equipment improves the functional status of chronic stroke patients; and which clinical and objective parameters can be used to assess the efficacy of such treatment.
<italic>Material and methods</italic>: 28 patients 3 to 6 months after the stroke. They participated in 3 weeks rehabilitation program in Rehabilitation Hospital. This program was supplemented by rehabilitation on: Zebris treadmill, ALFA and GAMMA platform, Biodex Balance System SD, the Balance Tutor treadmill. Their functional status was assessed by: Scandinavian Stroke Scale (SSS), Timed-Up-And-Go test (TUG), balance tests on Zebris, instrumented gait analysis on BTS system.
<italic>Results</italic>: The positive changes of the patients’ functional status were found in time of TUG test, in case of balance test for 95% of the ellipsoid area, lengths of major and minor axes of the ellipsoid, average sway speed, sway path length, total ground reaction force for left and right leg, and Gillette Gait Index in case of the gait analysis.
<italic>Conclusions</italic>: The improvement of the functional status of chronic stroke patients after relatively short rehabilitation treatment was achieved, due to the addition to the standard rehabilitation treatment the program on the advanced technologically equipment.
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Study aim: To check if the short rehabilitation treatment (3 weeks) complemented by complex rehabilitation on advanced equipment improves the functional status of chronic stroke patients; and which clinical and objective parameters can be used to assess the efficacy of such treatment.
Material and methods: 28 patients 3 to 6 months after the stroke. They participated in 3 weeks rehabilitation program in Rehabilitation Hospital. This program was supplemented by rehabilitation on: Zebris treadmill, ALFA and GAMMA platform, Biodex Balance System SD, the Balance Tutor treadmill. Their functional status was assessed by: Scandinavian Stroke Scale (SSS), Timed-Up-And-Go test (TUG), balance tests on Zebris, instrumented gait analysis on BTS system.
Results: The positive changes of the patients’ functional status were found in time of TUG test, in case of balance test for 95% of the ellipsoid area, lengths of major and minor axes of the ellipsoid, average sway speed, sway path length, total ground reaction force for left and right leg, and Gillette Gait Index in case of the gait analysis.
Conclusions: The improvement of the functional status of chronic stroke patients after relatively short rehabilitation treatment was achieved, due to the addition to the standard rehabilitation treatment the program on the advanced technologically equipment.

Objective assessment of the functional status of stroke patients: Can comprehensive rehabilitation treatment improve their functional efficiency?

Biomedical Human Kinetics

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Study aim: To check if the short rehabilitation treatment (3 weeks) complemented by complex rehabilitation on advanced equipment improves the functional status...

Objective assessment of the functional status of stroke patients: Can comprehensive rehabilitation treatment improve their functional efficiency?

Online veröffentlicht: 13. Juli 2022

Seitenbereich: 183 - 190

Eingereicht: 16. Aug. 2021

Akzeptiert: 24. Mai 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bhk-2022-0023

Schlüsselwörter
Stroke, Rehabilitation, Efficacy, Advanced technologically equipment

© 2022 Karina Nowak et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Objective assessment of the functional status of stroke patients: Can comprehensive rehabilitation treatment improve their functional efficiency?

Online veröffentlicht: 13. Juli 2022

Seitenbereich: 183 - 190

Eingereicht: 16. Aug. 2021

Akzeptiert: 24. Mai 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bhk-2022-0023

SchlüsselwörterStroke, Rehabilitation, Efficacy, Advanced technologically equipment

© 2022 Karina Nowak et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Schlüsselwörter
Stroke, Rehabilitation, Efficacy, Advanced technologically equipment