Emanuel Marcovitz

TL;DR: The study demonstrates that individuals following a stroke are well able to tolerate treadmill training in the early stage of their rehabilitation process without the use of a weight support apparatus and suggests that treadmill training may be more effective than conventional gait training for improving some gait parameters such as functional ambulation, stride length, percentage of paretic single stance period, and gastrocnemius muscular activity.

TL;DR: Major impairments in the activity of trunk muscles in hemiparetic subjects were manifested in the reduced activity level of the lateral trunk muscles, in delayed onset, and in reduced synchronization between activation of pertinent muscular pairs.

TL;DR: The outcomes suggest that MI may be useful for the enhancement of walking ability in patients following stroke and imagery practice probably should focus on its specific impairments during gait in order to affect the performance of the paretic lower extremity.

TL;DR: The findings support the feasibility and justify the incorporation of home-based motor imagery exercises to improve walking skills for poststroke hemiparesis.

TL;DR: Raising a foot on a step appears to be an appropriate strategy for weight shift training of stroke patients since weight shifting to both the paretic and nonparetic limb of Stroke patients is impaired.