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Associations between gait patterns, brain lesion factors and functional recovery in stroke patients.
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PMID:  21937234     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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Brain CT scans and neurological condition were evaluated in 74 stroke patients. Firstly, we found that using a classification-tree technique based on CT scan parameters (an innovative method, analyzing four parameters simultaneously) coincided with our previously proposed kinematic artificial neural network (ANN) classification technique for 71.3% of patients. Lesion size and location were found to be the most significant CT scan predictors of gait classification. Secondly, we sought to gauge post-rehabilitation functional recovery in patients within the same three groups of gait pattern. We found significant differences in scores between the three gait pattern groups, before and after rehabilitation (Kruskal-Wallis test, p<0.001), while significant improvement was observed in each group (Wilcoxon text; p<0.01). We conclude that patient classification into pathological gait groups on the basis of gait or CT scan parameters may serve as an early predictor of future functional outcome.
Authors:
Katarzyna Kaczmarczyk; Andrzej Wit; Maciej Krawczyk; Jacek Zaborski; Jan Gajewski
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-9-19
Journal Detail:
Title:  Gait & posture     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1879-2219     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-9-22     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9416830     Medline TA:  Gait Posture     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Affiliation:
Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Poland.
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