The Effect of Body Weight Support Treadmill Training on Gait Recovery, Proximal Lower Limb Motor Pattern, and Balance in Patients with Subacute Stroke

Table 4

Angle and moment peak of lower limb joints at sagittal plane.

	Normal group; (SD)	BWSTT group			CT group
		(SD)			(SD)
		Before training	After training		Before training	After training
Kinematic parameters (°)
Hip flexion	28.69 (9.51)	29.01 (13.61)	22.92 (10.76)	0.021	25.03 (6.45)	22.75 (6.94)	0.308
Knee flexion	58.82 (10.25)	36.50 (10.15)	37.96 (15.95)	0.787	43.10 (11.71)	41.62 (13.71)	0.329
Ankle dorsiflexion	10.03 (7.76)	16.51 (17.02)	9.79 (5.42)	0.301	13.56 (6.03)	14.67 (4.16)	0.524
Hip extension	−11.78 (8.51)	1.31 (11.84)	−8.67 (10.78)	0.020	1.45 (6.62)	−0.75 (7.54)	0.453
Knee extension	4.41 (5.08)	2.49 (8.54)	−0.39 (8.51)	0.235	9.82 (7.01)	7.22 (6.09)	0.239
Ankle; plantarflexion	−18.73 (7.76)	−11.56 (4.41)	−10.88 (11.53)	0.878	−6.72 (7.15)	−4.25 (6.95)	0.189
Kinetic parameters (Nm/kg)
Hip flexion	0.72 (0.32)	0.36 (0.29)	0.50 (0.30)	0.061	0.17 (0.11)	0.20 (0.15)	0.702
Knee flexion	0.52 (0.39)	0.77 (0.50)	0.62 (0.47)	0.649	0.60 (0.42)	0.86 (0.51)	0.164
Ankle dorsiflexion	1.23 (0.32)	0.68 (0.40)	0.83 (0.35)	0.339	0.37 (0.38)	0.72 (0.47)	0.080
Hip extension	0.68 (0.31)	0.50 (0.28)	0.57 (0.38)	0.636	0.42 (0.15)	0.46 (0.28)	0.682
Knee extension	0.35 (0.09)	0.40 (0.33)	0.47 (0.37)	0.302	0.16 (0.14)	0.19 (0.14)	0.753
Ankle; plantarflexion	0.15 (0.11)	0.76 (0.47)	0.51 (0.38)	0.099	0.56 (0.46)	0.67 (0.45)	0.541