Influence of partial body weight support on the locomotor adaptability of hemiparetic individuals due to stroke

• Grant number: 16/08883-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2016
• End date: December 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Physical Education
• Principal Investigator: Ana Maria Forti Barela
• Grantee: Douglas Vicente Russo Junior
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde. Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul (UNICSUL). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In order to understand locomotor adaptation and its usefulness to gait rehabilitation, the effects observed during walking with partial body weight support (PBWS) and the locomotor adaptation to overground walking, which is the surface we walk on daily basis, will be investigate in this research project. The target population will be individuals with hemiparesis due to stroke that usually participate on gait training with PBWS. They will be allocated randomically to a specific training group that will receive a single 15 minutes session of gait training with PBWS over the ground (OGG) or on a treadmill (TMG), and each participant will be evaluated before the training session ("free walking"), during the first 5 minutes of gait training with PBWS, during the last 5 minutes of gait training with PBWS and after the training session ("free walking"). A sensor (Gait Up) will be placed on each participants' foot and will register spatial-temporal parameters. Variability, symmetry ratio, transference index measurements and gait spatial-temporal parameters will be calculated for all evaluations.

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BARELA, ANA MARIA F.; GAMA, GABRIELA L.; RUSSO-JUNIOR, V, DOUGLAS; CELESTINO, MELISSA L.; BARELA, JOSE A.. Gait alterations during walking with partial body weight supported on a treadmill and over the ground. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 9, MAY 31 2019. (13/02322-5, 16/08883-7, 10/15218-3, 15/25376-9)

CELESTINO, MELISSA L.; VAN EMMERIK, RICHARD; BARELA, JOSE A.; GAMA, GABRIELA L.; BARELA, ANA M. F.. Intralimb gait coordination of individuals with stroke using vector coding. HUMAN MOVEMENT SCIENCE, v. 68, DEC 2019. (13/02322-5, 13/01050-1, 15/13100-9, 16/08883-7)

CELESTINO, MELISSA L.; VAN EMMERIK, RICHARD; BARELA, JOSE A.; BACCA, ODAIR; BARELA, ANA M. F.. Effects of limited knee flexion movement in intra-limb gait coordination. JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS, v. 128, NOV 9 2021. (16/08883-7, 15/13100-9, 18/04964-8)

BARELA, ANA; CELESTINO, MELISSA; GAMA, GABRIELA; RUSSO-JUNIOR, DOUGLAS; SANTANA, DINAH; BARELA, JOSE. Gait alterations induced by unloaded body weight in individuals with stroke while walking on moveable and fixed surfaces. MEDICAL ENGINEERING & PHYSICS, v. 95, p. 9-14, SEP 2021. (16/08883-7, 15/25376-9)