Individual joint contribution to body weight support in the affected lower limb during walking in post-stroke hemiplegia

摘要

Objective: Patients with post-stroke hemiplegia have difficulty with body weight support during walking. However, it is unclear which intra-limb strategy for body weight support tends to predominate, and how the intra-limb strategy is related to gait function. Support moment and individual joint contribution to support moment are the parameters that reflect intra-limb strategy for body weight supporting. The aim of this study was to test whether support moment and individual joint contributions differed between post-stroke subjects with different gait function.