Evidence for you Practice: Early or delayed provision of AFO in patients with stroke

Article for review:

Nikamp, C. D., Buurke, J. H., van der Palen, J., Hermens, H. J., & Rietman, J. S. (2016). Early or delayed provision of an ankle-foot orthosis in patients with acute and subacute stroke: A randomized controlled trial. Clinical Rehabilitation.

This randomized control trial evaluated early (at inclusion) and delayed provision (eight weeks later) of ankle-foot orthosis for patients with acute and subacute stroke.

Conclusions: Researchers found positive effects of providing ankle-foot orthoses in (sub)acute stroke subjects that had not used these orthoses before, regardless of early or delayed provision.

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