Effects of Voluntary Adjustments During Walking in Participants Post-stroke

Description

People post-stroke retain the capacity to modify walking patterns explicitly using biofeedback and implicitly when encountering changes in the walking environment. This proposal will assess changes in muscle activation patterns associated with walking modifications driven explicitly vs. implicitly, to determine whether individuals generate different amounts of co-contraction during explicit vs. implicit walking modifications. Understanding how walking modifications driven explicitly vs. implicitly influence co-contraction will allow the investigators to identify approaches that can more effectively restore muscle activation toward pre-stroke patterns, promoting mechanism-based recovery of walking function.

Conditions

Stroke

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

People post-stroke retain the capacity to modify walking patterns explicitly using biofeedback and implicitly when encountering changes in the walking environment. This proposal will assess changes in muscle activation patterns associated with walking modifications driven explicitly vs. implicitly, to determine whether individuals generate different amounts of co-contraction during explicit vs. implicit walking modifications. Understanding how walking modifications driven explicitly vs. implicitly influence co-contraction will allow the investigators to identify approaches that can more effectively restore muscle activation toward pre-stroke patterns, promoting mechanism-based recovery of walking function.

Determining the Effects of Increased Demands for Voluntary Adjustments on the Neuromuscular Control of Walking Post-stroke

Effects of Voluntary Adjustments During Walking in Participants Post-stroke

Condition
Stroke
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Irvine

Chapman University, Irvine, California, United States, 92618

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

    Ages Eligible for Study

    18 Years to 90 Years

    Sexes Eligible for Study

    ALL

    Accepts Healthy Volunteers

    Yes

    Collaborators and Investigators

    Chapman University,

    Study Record Dates

    2025-05-31