title: Test-retest reliability of portable metabolic monitoring after disabling stroke.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Impaired economy of gait, prevalent in chronic stroke secondary to residual gait deficits, is associated with intolerance for performing activities of daily living. Gait economy/efficiency is traditionally assessed by determining the rate of oxygen consumption during submaximal treadmill walking. However, the mechanics and energetics of treadmill versus overground walking are very different in stroke survivors with ambulatory deficits. Clearly, overground cardiopulmonary measures are needed to accurately profile movement economy after stroke. An obstacle to obtaining such measures after stroke has been the absence of reliable portable metabolic monitoring equipment. The purpose of this study was to establish the test-retest reliability of a portable metabolic monitoring device during overground walking in hemiparetic stroke survivors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-three chronic hemiparetic stroke survivors underwent two 6-minute walk tests while wearing a COSMED K4b(2) portable metabolic measurement system. Intraclass correlations coefficients (ICC) were calculated for both cardiopulmonary parameters and distance covered to determine test-retest reliability. An ICC of ≥ 0.85 was considered reliable.
  
  
  RESULTS
  ICCs for relative Vo2 (0.90), absolute Vo2 (0.93), Vco2 (0.93), and minute ventilation (0.95) demonstrated high reliability, but not for heart rate (0.76) or respiratory exchange ratio (0.64). There was no significant difference in the distance each participant walked between the first and second tests, eliminating distance as a potential confounder of our analyses (ICC = 0.99).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our results strongly support the reliability of the K4b(2) for quantifying overground gait efficiency after stroke. Use of this device may enable researchers to study how varying poststroke rehabilitation interventions affect this central measure of health and function.
authors.affiliation: 1Baltimore VA Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Alyssa D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Stookey
authors.forename: Michael G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: McCusker
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Sorkin
authors.forename: Leslie I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Katzel
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shaughnessy
authors.forename: Richard F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Macko
authors.forename: Frederick M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Ivey
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005080:Exercise Test; D005260:Female; D005684:Gait / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D051346:Mobility Limitation; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D010291:Paresis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation; D016138:Walking / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: gait economy; hemiparesis; oxygen consumption
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