21/11/2025
Utilising the treadmill walking for increased walking speed 🚶🏽♂️The lovely Elaine enjoying walking at a quicker pace than her normal ‘over-ground’ speed. For Elaine, the increased pace results in a less effortful left leg swing with a reduction in her excessive compensatory hip flexion and subsequent improved left leg extension though her stance phase.
📑 Tyrell et al. (2011) showed that faster treadmill walking facilitates a more normal walking pattern after stroke, without concomitant increases in common gait compensations, such as circumduction. The improvements in gait deviations were observed with small increases in walking speed.
Tyrell, C. M., Roos, M. A., Rudolph, K. S., & Reisman, D. S. (2011). Influence of systematic increases in treadmill walking speed on gait kinematics after stroke. Physical therapy, 91(3), 392–403. https://doi.org/10.2522/ptj.20090425
