The Impact of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy on Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Stroke Survivors: A Case-Control Study

The deterioration of gait performance following stroke is related to the impairment sensorimotor function on paretic side. Improper in post-stroke with additional diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) and non-paretic legs may create destabilizing effects, including serious injuries falls. Therefore, this study aimed investigate effect DPN spatiotemporal parameters survivors determine correlation movement functioning functional balance parameters. Ten DPN, 10 without healthy controls participated case-control study. Movement were assessed before actual testing. Spatiotemporal recorded using Nexus Vicon motion analysis system. Kruskal-Wallis test was used analyze Spearman’s rank-order coefficient identify between variables. Results showed that had longer stride time (temporal parameter, p = 0.001), lower cadence (p 0.001) greater variability than those controls. significantly correlated < 0.05). These findings suggested possibly affected survivors. could also play a role