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Smith 2008 (Continued)<br />

Inclusion criteria: <strong>stroke</strong> in the middle cerebral artery territory more than 3 months but<br />

less than 2 years prior to enrolling in the trial; walking slower than pre-<strong>stroke</strong><br />

Exclusion criteria: cognitive impairment; unable to ambulate; concomitant pathology that<br />

prevented walking on a treadmill<br />

Interventions Intervention: participants in the intervention group received 12 sessions of treadmill <strong>training</strong><br />

(20 minutes each session) over 4 weeks plus weekly calls from the investigator enquiring<br />

about the quality of their week and encouraging them to keep a quality-of-life log. They<br />

wore a standard gait belt on the treadmill and had a practice session prior to the start of the<br />

trial. The starting speed on the treadmill was the speed at which the participant could walk<br />

during the practice session <strong>for</strong> 5 minutes with a rate of perceived exertion (RPE) ≤ 13.<br />

The speed was increased by 0.2 mph each time the participant walked <strong>for</strong> 10 consecutive<br />

minutes with a RPE ≤ 13<br />

Control: participants in the control group received weekly calls from the investigator enquiring<br />

about the quality of their week and encouraging them to keep a quality-of-life log<br />

only<br />

Setting: community-based setting<br />

Outcomes Included outcomes: none<br />

Other outcomes: specific domains of the SIP<br />

Notes Very small sample size. Fitness outcomes not considered.<br />

Risk of bias<br />

Bias Authors’ judgement Support <strong>for</strong> judgement<br />

Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not reported<br />

Teixeira 1999<br />

Methods Design: randomised trial of mixed <strong>training</strong> versus no intervention - after usual care<br />

First iteration only of a lag control design; participants randomly allocated to immediate<br />

or delayed - participants allocated delayed intervention initially received no intervention<br />

Randomisation mechanism: unknown; method: unclear (’balanced blocks’)<br />

Allocation concealment: unknown<br />

Blinding: unknown<br />

Intention-to-treat: no<br />

Measurements: end of intervention (10 weeks)<br />

Withdrawals: none<br />

Participants Randomised: 13 participants<br />

Intervention: 6 participants; 1 male and 5 females; age 65.9 years (SD 10.2); 9.15 years<br />

post-<strong>stroke</strong> (SD 12.7)<br />

Control: 7 participants; 1 male and 6 females; age 69.4 years (SD 8.85); 6.4 years post<strong>stroke</strong><br />

(SD 6.2)<br />

All participants had unilateral <strong>stroke</strong> resulting in residual weakness or abnormal muscle<br />

tone or both<br />

<strong>Physical</strong> <strong>fitness</strong> <strong>training</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>stroke</strong> <strong>patients</strong> (<strong>Review</strong>)<br />

Copyright © 2011 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<br />

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