Nakamura R, Handa T, Watanabe S, Morohashi I
Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Narugo Branch Hospital, Tohoku University School of Medicine.
Tohoku J Exp Med. 1988 Mar;154(3):241-4. doi: 10.1620/tjem.154.241.
Temporal-distance parameters of gait, maximum walking speed, walking rate and stride length, were successively examined in 10 hemiparetic stroke patients for 8 weeks after starting gait training. In patients with walking speed less than 20 m/min i.e., walking rate less than 90 steps/min, the increase of walking speed was significantly related to that of walking rate and stride length. In patients with walking speed greater than 20 m/min, the increase of walking speed correlated only to that of stride length, indicating that a limiting factor of walking speed in hemiparetic patients was the decreased stride length.
