Stroke-related differences in axial body segment coordination during preplanned and reactive changes in walking direction

Hollands, K, van Vliet, P, Zietz, D, Wing, AM and Hollands, MA 2010, 'Stroke-related differences in axial body segment coordination during preplanned and reactive changes in walking direction' , Experimental Brain Research, 202 (3) , pp. 591-604.

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Abstract

This study quantitatively describes differences between participants with hemiparetic stroke and agematched healthy participants in axial body segment and gait kinematics during a direction change task. Participants were required to change walking direction by 45�, either to their left or right, at the midpoint of a 6-m path. Participants were visually cued either at the start of the walk (pre-planned) or one stride before they reached the turn point (reactive). The sequence and inter-segmental timing of axial orientation onset was preserved in participants with stroke. Analysis of a subgroup of stroke survivors indicated that participants with lesions affecting the basal ganglia (BG) took significantly longer time than control participants to initiate the reorientation synergy when making turns to their nonparetic side. We hypothesize that these differences are a product of asymmetrical activity of dopaminergic pathways in the brain resulting from compromised BG function.

Item Type:	Article
Themes:	Subjects / Themes > R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine Health and Wellbeing
Schools:	Schools > School of Health Sciences
Journal or Publication Title:	Experimental Brain Research
Publisher:	Springer
Refereed:	Yes
ISSN:	0014-4819
Funders:	Stroke Association
Depositing User:	K Hollands
Date Deposited:	21 Dec 2010 14:38
Last Modified:	18 Dec 2018 06:37
URI:	http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/12587

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