About “Estimating clinically important change in gait speed in people with stroke undergoing outpatient rehabilitation.”
Discussion. Thus, a “real” value (vs. an estimate) of a clinically meaningful change is likely between 0.15 and 0.20 m/s in the outpatient stroke population.
George’s answer:
Gait speed is one of the most commonly used outcome measures of walking ability in people with stroke, both in clinical practice and in research studies. Because it is so widely used we wanted to identify how much change in gait speed is important to people with stroke that are undergoing out patient rehabilitation. Based on the results, we estimated that a change of approximately 0.175 m/s reflects an important change in walking ability to peop...
Source: JNPT Discussions - July 20, 2011 Category: Physiotherapy Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: forums
