Cited by 137Stroke Rehabilitation and RecoverySpinal Cord Injury ResearchBotulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders

Recovery of Gait After Stroke: What Changes?

Open access
Buurke, Jaap H., Nene, Anand V., Kwakkel, Gert, Erren-Wolters, Victorien, IJzerman, Maarten J., Hermens, Hermie J.·2008·Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Abstract

Background. Little is known about whether changes in coordination patterns of muscle activation after stroke are related to functional recovery of walking. Objective . The present study investigated the longitudinal relationship between changes in neuromuscular activation patterns of paretic muscles in hemiplegic gait and improvement in walking ability after stroke. Methods. Thirteen patients diagnosed with a first unilateral ischemic stroke had their recovery of walking measured by the Rivermead Mobility Index, Functional Ambulation Categories, Barthel Index, Trunk Control Test, Motricity Index, and comfortable walking speed. Surface electromyography (SEMG) of the erector spinae, gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, semitendinosus, gastrocnemius, and tibialis anterior muscles of both legs was used to quantify coordination patterns in comfortable walking mode. All clinical and electromyography-related measurements were taken at 3, 6, 9, 12, and 24 weeks poststroke. Timing parameters of the SEMG patterns were calculated, using an objective burst detection algorithm, and analyzed with the measures of functional recovery. Results . All functional measures, except Trunk Control Test, showed statistically significant improvement over time, whereas SEMG patterns did not change significantly over time. Conclusion. The lack of significant change in SEMG patterns over time suggests that functional gait improvements may be more related to compensatory strategies in muscle activation of the unaffected leg and biomechanical changes than by restitution of muscle coordination patterns in the affected leg.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1177/1545968308317972

Cites

42 of 42 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Improvements in gait speed and walking ability after stroke were not significantly associated with a change in muscle activation of the paretic leg assessed by electromyography.

    “a number of recent longitudinally conducted studies showed that improvements in gait speed and walking ability after stroke were not significantly associated with a change in muscle activation of the paretic leg assessed by electromyography.79 -81”

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 3

  1. Richards CL, Malouin F, Dumas F, Wood-Dauphinee S. The rela- tionship of gait speed to clinical measures of function and mus- cle activation during recovery post-stroke. Paper presented at: Proceedings of NACOB II, the Second North American Congress on Biomechanics; August 24-28, 1992; Chicago, IL.
  2. de Haart M, Geurts AC, Huidekoper SC, Fasotti L, van Limbeek J. Recovery of standing balance in postacute stroke patients: a rehabilitation cohort study. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2004;85: 886-895.
  3. Roetenberg D, Buurke JH, Veltink PH, Forner-Cordero A, Hermens HJ. SEMG analysis for variable gait. Gait Posture. 2003; 18:109-117.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Buurke, J. H., Nene, A. V., Kwakkel, G., Erren-Wolters, V., IJzerman, M. J., & Hermens, H. J.
Affiliations
  • Roessingh Research and Development (NL)
  • University Medical Center Utrecht (NL)
  • University of Twente (NL)
Corresponding author
Buurke, Jaap H.
Venue
Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
Published
2008-10-29
Volume
22
Issue
6
Pages
676-683
ISSN
  • 0888-4390 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-9683
  • 1552-6844
OpenAlex
W2107160767
Cited by
137
References
42
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 4
FWCI
7.48
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Neurorehabilitation and neural repair (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Amsterdam UMC (VU Amsterdam) - Institutional Repository (publishedVersion)
  • VU Research Portal (publishedVersion)
  • University of Twente Research Information (publishedVersion)
  • Pure Amsterdam UMC (submittedVersion)
  • University of Twente Research Information (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Rehabilitation › Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Spinal Cord Injury Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
Keywords
stroke, gait recovery, hemiplegia, muscle activation patterns, surface electromyography, paretic muscles, compensatory strategies, walking speed, functional recovery, ischemic stroke, muscle coordination
MeSH terms
Stroke Rehabilitation, Adult, Aged, Electromyography, Exercise Therapy, Female, Humans, Leg, Male, Middle Aged, Psychomotor Performance, Time Factors, Range of Motion, Articular, Muscle, Skeletal, Recovery of Function, Gait Disorders, Neurologic, Stroke

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review