Lower Body Positive Pressure Treadmill Training in Post-Stroke Gait Impairment

All participants practiced one session a day of AlterG or TGT (for 40min), six days a week, for four weeks (for a total amount of 24 sessions). All patients were trained using BWS, FAC-tailored physiotherapist assistance, and treadmill speed (S) to allow the participant to walk with the intermittent support of one physiotherapist to help with balance and coordination (FAC 2), with the visual supervision of one physiotherapist (FAC 3), or independently without using the handrails (FAC 4). BWS, physiotherapist assistance, and S were checked and adapted to subjects' progresses across the AlterG sessions. A qualitative (using FAC) and quantitative (spatio-temporal parameters and dynamic electromyography) gait assessment before and after the end of the monthly LBPP gait training was carried out.