The purpose of this study was to evaluate in aged patients with hip fracture, the degree of recovery at discharge and after discharge relative to the pre-fracture walking level, to clarify the factors involved in unsuccessful recovery. The patients were 189 patients aged 60 years and older who underwent surgery between 1988 and 1994. Patients who died within 1 year or lacked data on walking wer...

OBJECTIVE To describe recovery of gait after total hip arthroplasty (THA) based on the assessment of spatiotemporal gait parameters determined with an ambulatory system. DESIGN A 6-month inception cohort study. SETTING Inpatient and outpatient setting in an academic hospital. PARTICIPANTS Sixty-three patients participating in a short-stay program for THA. INTERVENTION Primary unilateral...

A number of foot placement strategies for walking have been proposed that make use of widely varying model complexities. Although a number of successful demonstrations have been individually shown in simulation and on physical robots, it is difficult to make a direct performance comparison due to the large differences in hardware, gait generation strategy, control system gains, actuator saturat...

OBJECTIVE To gain insight into the relation between changes in gait patterns over time and functional recovery of walking ability in stroke patients. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Inpatient rehabilitation center of a university hospital in the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS Thirteen stroke patients admitted, or awaiting admission, for inpatient rehabilitation 3 weeks poststroke, and 16 healthy ...

Walking is an essential task important to recovery after stroke. However, there is a limited understanding regarding the characteristics of walking in in-patients with stroke. The objectives of this thesis were to: 1) develop an instrument capable of acquiring temporal characteristics of everyday walking; 2) investigate the quantity and control of everyday walking; and 3) profile the task-speci...

We have assessed the influence of different surgical procedures on the incidence, severity and duration of early postoperative hypoxaemia in 312 healthy infants and children undergoing elective palatoplasty. Group 1 patients underwent von Langenbeck palatoplasty (n = 149), group 2 patients underwent push-back palatoplasty (n = 124) and group 3 patients underwent combined push-back palatoplasty ...

OBJECTIVES To describe the time course of recovery of walking function and other activities of daily living in patients with intensive care unit (ICU)-acquired muscle weakness. DESIGN This is a cohort study. PARTICIPANTS We included critically ill patients with ICU-acquired muscle weakness. SETTING Post-acute ICU and rehabilitation units in Germany. MEASURES We measured walking function...

INTRODUCTION Rigid Ankle-Foot Orthoses (AFOs) are commonly prescribed to counteract excessive knee flexion during the stance phase of gait in children with cerebral palsy (CP). While rigid AFOs may normalize knee kinematics and kinetics effectively, it has the disadvantage of impeding push-off power. A spring-like AFO may enhance push-off power, which may come at the cost of reducing the knee f...

The purpose of this study was to explore the application of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to the assessment of peripheral arterial occlusive disease (PAOD). Muscle blood flow, oxygen consumption, arterial inflow capacity, O2 resaturation, and recovery times were determined at rest, under ischemic and hyperemic conditions, and continuously during and after walking exercise in 11 claudicants ...