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CHECGAIT: A Functional Electrical Stimulation Clinical Pathway to Reduce Foot Drop during Walking in Adult Patients with Upper Motor Neuron Lesions
Foot drop during the swing phase of gait and at initial foot contact is a current kinematic abnormality that can occur following an upper motor neuron (UMN) lesion. Functional electrical stimulation (FES) of the common peroneal nerve through an assistive device is often used in neuro-rehabilitation...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10419675/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37568513 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12155112 |
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author | Areno, Gilles Chantraine, Frédéric Schreiber, Céline Masson, Xavier Classen, Tanja Pereira, José Alexandre Carvalho Dierick, Frédéric |
author_facet | Areno, Gilles Chantraine, Frédéric Schreiber, Céline Masson, Xavier Classen, Tanja Pereira, José Alexandre Carvalho Dierick, Frédéric |
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description | Foot drop during the swing phase of gait and at initial foot contact is a current kinematic abnormality that can occur following an upper motor neuron (UMN) lesion. Functional electrical stimulation (FES) of the common peroneal nerve through an assistive device is often used in neuro-rehabilitation to help patients regain mobility. Although there are FES-specific guideline recommendations, it remains a challenge for clinicians to appropriately select patients eligible for the daily use of FES devices, as very few health insurance systems cover its cost in Europe. In Luxembourg, since 2018, successfully completing an FES clinical pathway called CHECGAIT is a prerequisite to receiving financial coverage for FES devices from the national health fund (Caisse Nationale de Santé—CNS). This study describes the structure and steps of CHECGAIT and reports our experience with a cohort of 100 patients enrolled over a three-year period. The clinical and gait outcomes of all patients were retrospectively quantified, and a specific analysis was performed to highlight differences between patients with and without an FES device prescription at the end of a CHECGAIT. Several significant gait differences were found between these groups. These results and CHECGAIT may help clinicians to better select patients who can most benefit from this technology in their daily lives. In addition, CHECGAIT could provide significant savings to public health systems by avoiding unnecessary deliveries of FES devices. |
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spelling | pubmed-104196752023-08-12 CHECGAIT: A Functional Electrical Stimulation Clinical Pathway to Reduce Foot Drop during Walking in Adult Patients with Upper Motor Neuron Lesions Areno, Gilles Chantraine, Frédéric Schreiber, Céline Masson, Xavier Classen, Tanja Pereira, José Alexandre Carvalho Dierick, Frédéric J Clin Med Article Foot drop during the swing phase of gait and at initial foot contact is a current kinematic abnormality that can occur following an upper motor neuron (UMN) lesion. Functional electrical stimulation (FES) of the common peroneal nerve through an assistive device is often used in neuro-rehabilitation to help patients regain mobility. Although there are FES-specific guideline recommendations, it remains a challenge for clinicians to appropriately select patients eligible for the daily use of FES devices, as very few health insurance systems cover its cost in Europe. In Luxembourg, since 2018, successfully completing an FES clinical pathway called CHECGAIT is a prerequisite to receiving financial coverage for FES devices from the national health fund (Caisse Nationale de Santé—CNS). This study describes the structure and steps of CHECGAIT and reports our experience with a cohort of 100 patients enrolled over a three-year period. The clinical and gait outcomes of all patients were retrospectively quantified, and a specific analysis was performed to highlight differences between patients with and without an FES device prescription at the end of a CHECGAIT. Several significant gait differences were found between these groups. These results and CHECGAIT may help clinicians to better select patients who can most benefit from this technology in their daily lives. In addition, CHECGAIT could provide significant savings to public health systems by avoiding unnecessary deliveries of FES devices. MDPI 2023-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10419675/ /pubmed/37568513 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12155112 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Areno, Gilles Chantraine, Frédéric Schreiber, Céline Masson, Xavier Classen, Tanja Pereira, José Alexandre Carvalho Dierick, Frédéric CHECGAIT: A Functional Electrical Stimulation Clinical Pathway to Reduce Foot Drop during Walking in Adult Patients with Upper Motor Neuron Lesions |
title | CHECGAIT: A Functional Electrical Stimulation Clinical Pathway to Reduce Foot Drop during Walking in Adult Patients with Upper Motor Neuron Lesions |
title_full | CHECGAIT: A Functional Electrical Stimulation Clinical Pathway to Reduce Foot Drop during Walking in Adult Patients with Upper Motor Neuron Lesions |
title_fullStr | CHECGAIT: A Functional Electrical Stimulation Clinical Pathway to Reduce Foot Drop during Walking in Adult Patients with Upper Motor Neuron Lesions |
title_full_unstemmed | CHECGAIT: A Functional Electrical Stimulation Clinical Pathway to Reduce Foot Drop during Walking in Adult Patients with Upper Motor Neuron Lesions |
title_short | CHECGAIT: A Functional Electrical Stimulation Clinical Pathway to Reduce Foot Drop during Walking in Adult Patients with Upper Motor Neuron Lesions |
title_sort | checgait: a functional electrical stimulation clinical pathway to reduce foot drop during walking in adult patients with upper motor neuron lesions |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10419675/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37568513 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12155112 |
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