title: Effect of an overground training session versus a treadmill training session on timed up and go in hemiparetic patients.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Timed Up and Go (TUG) performance is reduced following stroke. Gait training improves gait-related activities in hemiparetic patients. However, no study has compared the impact of a single overground training session with a treadmill training session on gait-related activities (assessed by TUG).
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To compare the immediate effect of a single overground training session versus a single treadmill training session on TUG performance in hemiparetic patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this randomized controlled clinical trial, 56 hemiparetic patients were randomized to 1 or 2 distinct groups: a single gait training session overground (O group) or on a treadmill (T group). Time taken to perform the TUG (in seconds) was assessed before and immediately after the completion of each session.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Time taken to perform the TUG decreased significantly, and to a similar extent, in both groups following the training session (O group, 5.9%; T group, 5.2%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An overground training session and a treadmill training session were equally effective in improving TUG performance in hemiparetic patients. Hemiparetic patients should be encouraged to walk regularly overground including turns for 20 minutes without stopping. This is an easy and inexpensive self-rehabilitation method to improve functional gait-related activities involved in the TUG test.
authors.affiliation: Groupe de Recherche Clinique et Technologique sur le Handicap, Université Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, EA 4497, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France Laboratoire AGIM, FRE 3405 CNRS/UJF Grenoble/UPMF/EPHE, La Tronche, France.
authors.forename: Céline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bonnyaud
authors.affiliation: Groupe de Recherche Clinique et Technologique sur le Handicap, Université Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, EA 4497, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France.
authors.forename: Raphael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zory
authors.affiliation: Groupe de Recherche Clinique et Technologique sur le Handicap, Université Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, EA 4497, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France.
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Robertson
authors.affiliation: Groupe de Recherche Clinique et Technologique sur le Handicap, Université Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, EA 4497, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France.
authors.forename: Djamel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bensmail
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire AGIM, FRE 3405 CNRS/UJF Grenoble/UPMF/EPHE, La Tronche, France Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Vuillerme
authors.affiliation: Groupe de Recherche Clinique et Technologique sur le Handicap, Université Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, EA 4497, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France.
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Roche
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005081:Exercise Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005684:Gait / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010291:Paresis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities / Q000295:instrumentation*; D020521:Stroke / Q000503:physiopathology; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D016138:Walking / Q000502:physiology
keywords: Timed Up and Go test; gait training; hemiparesis; self-rehabilitation