Treadmill training with partial body weight support after stroke

Abstract EN

Gait training is a major goal of neurological rehabilitation following stroke.

This paper discusses new developments in locomotor therapy.

Partial body weight supported treadmill training (PBWSTT) enables severely affected stroke patients to rehearse complex gait cycles using a lask-specific approach to.motor recovery.

Several controlled studies have documented ils polenlial for enhancing gait recovery during bolh the acute and chronic phases following stroke.

Automated PBWSTT and robot-assisted gait training are recenl alternatives to PBWSTT.

They are an attempt to reduce the burden on the therapist assisting the patient with weight shifting and leg positioning during PBWSTT.