TY - JOUR
T1 - Two-week rehabilitation with auditory biofeedback prosthesis reduces whole body angular momentum range during walking in stroke patients with hemiplegia
T2 - A randomized controlled trial
AU - Owaki, Dai
AU - Sekiguchi, Yusuke
AU - Honda, Keita
AU - Izumi, Shin Ichi
N1 - Funding Information:
We also acknowledge the support of JSPS KAKENHI (grant number JP18H03167 and JP20H04260).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - Walking rehabilitation is challenging in stroke patients with sensory impairments. In this study, we examined the two-week effect of an auditory biofeedback prosthesis, Auditory Foot (AF), on the change in the frontal whole body angular momentum (WBAM) range, before and after a two-week walking rehabilitation. We conducted a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT). We employed statistical Bayesian modeling to understand the mechanism of the rehabilitation effect and predict the expected effect in new patients. The best-performing model indicated that the frontal WBAM range was reduced in the AF group by 12.9–28.7%. This suggests that the use of kinesthetic biofeedback in gait rehabilitation contributes to the suppression of frontal WBAM, resulting in an improved walking balance function in stroke patients.
AB - Walking rehabilitation is challenging in stroke patients with sensory impairments. In this study, we examined the two-week effect of an auditory biofeedback prosthesis, Auditory Foot (AF), on the change in the frontal whole body angular momentum (WBAM) range, before and after a two-week walking rehabilitation. We conducted a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT). We employed statistical Bayesian modeling to understand the mechanism of the rehabilitation effect and predict the expected effect in new patients. The best-performing model indicated that the frontal WBAM range was reduced in the AF group by 12.9–28.7%. This suggests that the use of kinesthetic biofeedback in gait rehabilitation contributes to the suppression of frontal WBAM, resulting in an improved walking balance function in stroke patients.
KW - Auditory biofeedback
KW - Effect prediction
KW - Statistical modeling
KW - Stroke
KW - Two-week rehabilitation effect
KW - Walking rehabilitation
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U2 - 10.3390/brainsci11111461
DO - 10.3390/brainsci11111461
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85118921677
VL - 11
JO - Brain Sciences
JF - Brain Sciences
SN - 2076-3425
IS - 11
M1 - 1461
ER -