Original Research Article
Year: 2019 | Month: July | Volume: 9 | Issue: 7 | Pages: 162-168
Sit to Stand Performance across Three Attentional Loading Conditions and Its Correlation with Trunk Impairment in Stroke Patients - A Cross Sectional Study
Subash Palanisamy1, Raja Regan2
1Senior Physiotherapist, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, PSG Hospitals, Coimbatore, India
2Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Physiotherapy subjects, PSG College of Physiotherapy, Coimbatore, India
Corresponding Author: Subash Palanisamy
ABSTRACT
Stroke subjects show poorer sit-to-stand performance when compared to matched-healthy subjects, but it is still unclear about the role of trunk in this poorer performance. Also, little is known about the effects of attentional loading on performance of sit to stand in individuals with stroke. The aim of the study was to determine the sit to stand performance of stroke patients across three attentional loading conditions (Single, Dual Motor and Dual cognitive) and to determine whether their performance during dual task of the sit to stand task is correlated with level of trunk impairment. A total of 52 stroke patients and 20 normal healthy adults participated in the study. The Five Time Sit to Stand (FTSTS) test was conducted under three attentional loading conditions in random order and level of trunk impairment (Trunk Impairment Scale) was measured. The Pearson correlation coefficient was used to evaluate the relationship between these variables. A repeated measures ANOVA was used to measure the difference in FTSTS test across three attentional loading conditions. A repeated measures ANOVA determined that mean FTSTS test scores differed statistically significant between the three attentional loading conditions (F= 58.095, P < 0.0005). A Pearson product-moment correlation analysis shows that there is a strong, negative correlation between single task(r=-0.848, p<.005), dual motor(r=-0.858, p<.005), dual cognitive(r=-0.772, p<.005) five FTSTS test scores and trunk impairment variable, which is statistically significant. These findings suggest that there is a decline sit to stand performance during dual task conditions which is associated with trunk impairment in individuals with stroke.
Key words: Sit to Stand, Trunk Impairment, Five Times Sit To Stand test, Dual Tasks, Stroke