Hayashida Kazuki, Nakazono Ryota, Yamamichi Nami, Narita Masa, Onishi Koichiro, Morioka Shu
Neurorehabilitation Research Center, Kio University, Koryo, Japan.
Department of Rehabilitation, Fujiikai Rehabilitation Hospital, Higashiosaka, Japan.
Rehabil Process Outcome. 2022 Jul 30;11:11795727221114464. doi: 10.1177/11795727221114464. eCollection 2022.
The difference between the walking speeds of stroke patients and the general population may influence the self-perception of patients, who perceive their walk as lacking general human-likeness. Perception toward human-likeness during walking is defined here as the feeling that one can walk as intended, just like healthy people. Such negative subjective experiences may curb their social participation. However, the perception associated with walking speed in stroke patients is poorly understood. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between walking speed and perception toward general human-likeness during walking in stroke patients. Thirty-two post-stroke patients were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. Patients performed 10-m walk tests at comfortable and fast speeds and answered questions about their perceived human-like walking after completing the walk ("How much did you feel your walking resembled the human-likeness during walking of general people?"). We found a significant positive correlation between perception toward human-likeness during walking and walking speed at both comfortable and fast speeds. To the best of our knowledge, this report is the first to suggest that walking speed may correlate with self-perception. Our findings may help understand the underlying mechanism in patients perceiving less human-likeness during walking.
中风患者与普通人群步行速度的差异可能会影响患者的自我认知，他们认为自己的行走缺乏一般的人类特征。这里将行走过程中对类人性的感知定义为一种感觉，即能够像健康人一样按自己的意愿行走。这种负面的主观体验可能会抑制他们的社会参与。然而，中风患者中与步行速度相关的感知尚不清楚。本研究的主要目的是调查中风患者步行速度与行走过程中对一般类人性的感知之间的关系。32名中风后患者参与了这项横断面研究。患者以舒适和快速的速度进行10米步行测试，并在完成步行后回答有关他们对类人行走的感知的问题（“你觉得自己的行走与普通人行走时的类人性有多相似？”）。我们发现，在舒适和快速速度下，行走过程中对类人性的感知与步行速度之间存在显著的正相关。据我们所知，本报告首次表明步行速度可能与自我认知相关。我们的发现可能有助于理解患者在行走过程中感觉类人性较低的潜在机制。
