None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Background and Purpose: Amount of weight-bearing is useful information during rehabilitation after stroke of subjects with hemiparesis to evaluate symmetry, weight shift ability and limb loading. For clinical examination, an easiest and cheapest technique to measuring objectively weight-bearing is procedures using scales. Then, this study aimed to analyze weight-bearing during upright stance by scales in subjects with and without hemiparesis to identify asymmetry patterns. Methods: Forty subjects with (n=20) or without (n=20) hemiparesis were included in procedures to record weight-bearing between hemibodies. The values for each limb were registered as weight-bearing under the non-predominantly (affected/non-dominant) and predominantly (non-affected/dominant) used hemibody and they were used to calculate symmetry ratio defining asymmetry patterns.
Interventions
Tranversal Observational Study performed in a single evaluation during approximately 5 minutes to record weight-bearing distribution in kilograms observed during quiet upright standing in individual bathroom scales under each feet and symmetry ratio calculated off-line. Overall duration of this observational study is 2 months.
Sponsors
Universidade de Brasilia
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
20 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
(1) have had a post-brain injury period of over six months, (2) have spastic hemiparesis and (3) were able to maintain themselves upright stance during a period of time long enough to register the weight-bearing
Exclusion criteria
participants presenting other types of disability in addition to hemiparesis
Outcome results
None listed