Change of Foot Rotation of Gait Analysis Parameters according to Gait Improvement in
Post-Stroke Hemiplegic Patients

Park, Kee-eon; Lee, Il-suk; Hong, Hae-jin; Lee, Sang-kwan; Sung, Kang-keyng

The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine > Volume 35(4); 2014 > Article

Original Article

The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine 2014;35(4): 498-504.

뇌졸중 이후 편마비 환자들의 보행 분석에 따른 보행 시 발 외전각도의 변화

박기언, 이일석, 홍해진, 이상관, 성강경

원광대학교 한의과대학 광주한방병원 심계내과학교실

Change of Foot Rotation of Gait Analysis Parameters according to Gait Improvement in Post-Stroke Hemiplegic Patients

Kee-eon Park, Il-suk Lee, Hae-jin Hong, Sang-kwan Lee, Kang-keyng Sung

Dept. of Internal Medicine and Neuroscience, College of Korean Medicine, Won-Kwang University

Correspondence

Kang-keyng Sung ,Tel: 062-670-6412, Email: sungkk@wonkwang.ac.kr

Published online: December 30, 2014.

ABSTRACT

Objectives:
This study investigated the change of foot rotation angle of gait analysis parameters according to gait improvement in post-stroke hemiplegic patients.

Methods:
We measured the foot rotation angle of eight post-stroke hemiplegic patients at the time of dependent and independent gait.

Results:
The foot rotation angle of the paralyzed side reduced closer to normal average according to gait improvement, but the non-paralyzed side not significantly.

Conclusions:
Improvement of foot rotation is an important thing for independent gait of post-stroke hemiplegic patients so this treatment seems worthy of being considered in clinical trials.

Key words: foot rotation, dependent gait, independent gait, stroke patient