Does Improved Ability to Achieve Single Leg Stance Lead to a More Efficient Gait Pattern in Adults With Acquired Brain Injury?

SLS treatment following the neurodevelopmental treatment (NDT). SLS is the ability of one limb to support the body's weight in a standing position. In gait it is the foot being in contact with the ground whilst the body passes over it and this stance phase of gait accounts for 60% of the gait cycle. The treatment approach of NDT has been chosen as this is the most common physiotherapy treatment option in the UK and is the most common option in the studies above. NDT is a problem-solving approach to the assessment and treatment of individuals with disturbances of function, movement and postural control due to a lesion of the central nervous system and provides an outline of the treatment required to achieve SLS which will form the basis of the intervention of this study.

Individualised physiotherapy treatment approach, as per standard protocol, but it will not work specifically on SLS. Will be based on the neuro-developmental technique.