Effect of progressive horizontal resistive force on the comfortable walking speed of individuals post-stroke

Table 1 Characteristics of post-stroke individuals compared with summary data from nonimpaired participants

Participant	Sex (M/F)	Age (years)	Weight (kg)	Height (cm)	Side of Paresis	Months Post-stroke	BBS max 56	FM max 34	Overground CWS
S1	M	57	82	178	L	290	46	19	0.5
S2	F	59	66	173	R	314	53	20	0.7
S3	F	64	60	160	R	105	51	17	0.8
S4	M	57	92	180	R	105	52	26	0.9
S5	M	45	73	180	R	164	51	20	1.0
S6	M	50	83	178	L	96	49	16	0.7
S7	M	46	96	180	R	291	54	21	0.9
S8	M	42	98	173	L	27	50	15	0.8
S9	M	43	64	178	L	101	55	20	1.2
S10	M	57	95	180	R	94	53	19	0.7
S11	F	60	62	150	L	166	53	20	0.8
S12	M	53	93	178	R	46	46	21	1.0
S13	M	82	68	168	R	217	-	-	1.2
S14	M	58	77	170	L	38	47	18	1.1
Mean	3F/11M	55	79	173	6L/8R	147	51	19	0.9
SD	-	10	14	9	-	97	3	3	0.2
Nonimpaired	4F/6M	51	77.3	174.2	-	-	-	-	1.4
SD		8	14.2	9.9					0.2

SD, standard deviation; FM, Lower Extremity Fugl Meyer scores; BBS, Berg Balance Test scores; CWS, Self-selected Comfortable Walking Speed.

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