The Influence of Unilateral Blood Flow Restriction Walk Training on Gait Parameters

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of unilateral blood flow restriction walk training on gait spatiotemporal parameters. Forty-five healthy subjects (males, age: 21.91 ± 1.9 year, mass: 73.3 ± 3.71 kg, height; 1.72± 0.06 m) participated in this study. The Spatiotemporal gait parameters taken are: cadences, step length, step width, preferred walking speed (PWS), walk-run preferred transition speed (PTS), and walking speed reserve values (WSRv). The measures gathered using kinetisense360ai motion analysis system software. The study subjects distributed to three groups (condition A: with BFR and low intensity walking trails, condition B: without BFR and high intensity walking trails, and no condition: without BFR and low intensity walking trails) based on the study variables statistic homogeneity, each group attend two sessions every day for three weeks (total thirty-six sessions). The finding of this study showed that there was an increase of most of the gait parameter of the BFR-W training group (condition A) and the high intensity group (condition B), compared to the non-condition group with favor to condition A (p<0.05). Also, it showed that the combination of BFR-W training with low-intensity can induce similar gains of changes effecting gait parameters as the high intensity training.