Pedaling therapy is defined as a plan of physical activity prescribed to facilitate rehabilitation from immobilizing diseases and any conditions that disrupt the movement daily life or maintain well-being through neuro-reeducation, gait training, therapeutic activities.

This paper describes the design and evaluation of a suite of movement-based games for gait rehabilitation with personalization based on gait characteristics. We used an eight by one meter pressure sensitive interactive LED floor. With the interactive games we attempted to steer different dimensions of people's gait, increase motivation, provide an enjoying experience, and create an additional p...

Clinical and functional gait analysis is used widely by different professionals dealing with patients with hemiplegia. The aim of this study was to examine the gait analysis strategies of neurologists, specialists in physical and rehabilitation medicine (physiatrists) and physiotherapists. Differences in global analysis strategy and choice of indicators between different clinicians have not pre...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Physical inactivity propagates disability after stroke through physical deconditioning and learned nonuse. We investigated whether treadmill aerobic training (T-AEX) is more effective than conventional rehabilitation to improve ambulatory function and cardiovascular fitness in patients with chronic stroke. METHODS Sixty-one adults with chronic hemiparetic gait after isc...

Optimizing rehabilitation strategies requires understanding the effects of contextual cues on adaptation learning. Prior studies have examined these effects on the specificity of split-belt walking adaptation, showing that contextual visual cues can be manipulated to modulate the magnitude, transfer, and washout of split-belt-induced learning in humans. Specifically, manipulating the availabili...

[Purpose] The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of stationary cycling exercise on the balance and gait abilities of chronic stroke patients. [Subjects] Thirty-two chronic stroke patients were randomly assigned to an experimental group (n=16) or a control group (n=16). [Methods] All of the subjects received the standard rehabilitation program for 30 minutes, while the experi...

Gait training is an essential part of the rehabilitation process for those with lower extremity (LE) amputations. For service members at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN) allows virtual reality to be incorporated into gait training as an adjunct to conventional therapies. This retrospective case series examines the self-selected velocities...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The success of gait rehabilitation after stroke depends on active walking exercises. However, the disabling after-effects of stroke often make such exercises impossible at the onset of therapy. To facilitate treadmill training of paraparetic patients, a robot-driven gait orthosis (Lokomat) was developed. We investigated the effects of the Lokomat when used with hemipareti...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects of gait training using a treadmill with and without visual biofeedback in patients in the late period after stroke, and to compare both training methods. DESIGN A randomized, controlled study. SUBJECTS Fifty people at least 6 months after stroke, randomly enrolled into groups with a rehabilitation programme of treadmill training with or without visual biof...