Time 1: Study enrolment | Time 2: Baseline assessment | Time 3: Follow up assessment | Time 4: Retention assessment | |
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Demographic information | ✓ | |||
Stroke specific information | ✓ | |||
Medical information | ✓ | |||
Mini-mental Status Exam | ✓ | |||
Chedoke-McMaster Stroke Assessment leg & foot score | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Berg Balance Scale | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Community Balance and Mobility Scale | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Activities-specific Balance Confidence questionnaire | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
10 Metre Walk Test (fast walking speed) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Biodex – maximum voluntary contraction EMG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Self-selected walking speed | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Gait – kinematic, kinetic and EMG parameters | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Physiological Balance Test – Postural stress test (external perturbations) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Physiological Balance Test – Arm raise task (internal perturbations) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Physiological Balance Test – Stepping Reactions (internal perturbations) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Helpfulness of treatment received in improving balance | ✓ | ✓ |