Activities to Increase Gait Speed in PT

Activities to Increase Gait Speed in PT

RESISTED WALKING OR WALKOUTS

Resisted walkouts work on many different muscles and skills including:
+ Core strength
+ Hip stability
+ Ankle strength
+ Weight shifting
+ Hip extension
+ Step length
+ Step height
+ Posture
+ Coordination
+ Control

To document, show what YOU did with this patient during the activity that a layperson could not do.

Some examples are:

+ Provided visual cues on the floor to increase step length
+ Tactile cues on core musculature to control walk-back speed and not let the TheraBand pull the patient in
+ Provided physical assistance secondary to LOB due to decreased core control
+ Provided tactile and verbal cues to hamstrings and glutes to increase hip extension with backward ambulation

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