CONTEXT Neither supervised treadmill exercise nor strength training for patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) without intermittent claudication have been established as beneficial. OBJECTIVE To determine whether supervised treadmill exercise or lower extremity resistance training improve functional performance of patients with PAD with or without claudication. DESIGN, SETTING, AND...

• Visual perturbation increased muscle activation while walking on incline treadmill. Steeper treadmill elicited more lower extremity activation. Females had pronounced responses to visual than males. Virtual reality could be a promising paradigm for astronauts' training.

The objective of the current study was to evaluate the effect of walkway perturbation training on human dynamic walking stability and slip propensity. A new walkway perturbation training program was developed using an instrumented, split-belt treadmill. Walkway surface perturbation was composed of multiple, randomized perturbation pulses. Each pulse was created by sudden accelerating the treadm...

Aqua treadmill is mainly used for rehabilitation purposes, but research indicates that this equipment could be used for training as well. Th e few studies performed with aqua treadmill mainly followed lactate and heart rate changes. Th erefore, the aim of this study was to test the eff ect of high water treadmill training on several blood parameters and on the correlations between them. Eight s...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Treadmill training with partial body weight support is a new and promising therapy in gait rehabilitation of stroke patients. The study intended to investigate its efficiency compared with gait training within regular physiotherapy in nonambulatory patients with chronic hemiparesis. METHODS An A-B-A single-case study design compared treadmill training plus partial body ...

By comparing treadmill walking in hemiparetic and non-disabled individuals at matched speeds, Chen et al. [Chen G, Patten C, Kothari DH, Zajac FE. Gait differences between individuals with post-stroke hemiparesis and non-disabled controls at matched speeds. Gait Posture (2004)] identified gait deviations that were consistent with impaired swing initiation and single limb support in the paretic ...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of underwater treadmill gait training on the balance ability of stroke patients. [Subjects] Twenty-two patients with stroke were randomly assigned to an underwater treadmill group (n =11) or a control group (n =11). [Methods] Both groups received general rehabilitation for 30 min per session, 5 times per week, over a 4-week peri...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE A new gait training strategy for patients with stroke seeks to increase walking speed through treadmill training. This study compares the effects of structured speed-dependent treadmill training (STT) (with the use of an interval paradigm to increase the treadmill speed stepwise according to principles of sport physiology) with limited progressive treadmill training (LTT)...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a disabling condition resulting in deficits of sensory and motor functions, and has no effective treatment. Considering that protocols with stem cell transplantation and treadmill training have shown promising results, the present study evaluated the effectiveness of stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth (SHEDs) transplantation combined with treadmill trai...

[Purpose] This study sought to examine the effects of Pedalo® training on balance and fall risk in stroke patients. [Subjects and Methods] Thirty-one subjects with stroke were recruited and randomly allocated into two groups: the Pedalo® group (n=15) and the Treadmill group (n=16). The Pedalo® group performed conventional physical therapy program with Pedalo® training for 30 minutes, five times...