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SUBMITTER: Feld JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6034633 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Feld Jody A JA Zukowski Lisa A LA Howard Annie G AG Giuliani Carol A CA Altmann Lori J P LJP Najafi Bijan B Plummer Prudence P
Stroke 20180405 5
<h4>Background and purpose</h4>Gait speed does not adequately predict whether stroke survivors will be active in the community. This may be because traditional single-task gait speed does not sufficiently reproduce the demands of walking in the real world. This study assessed whether dual-task gait speed accounts for variance in daily ambulatory activity above what can be predicted with habitual (single task) gait speed in community-dwelling stroke survivors.<h4>Methods</h4>Twenty-eight communit ...[more]