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Ataxic gait is a common symptom of sensory ataxia that restricts activities of daily living. A 70-year-old woman with severe sensory disturbance was diagnosed with intradural extramedullary spinal cord tumors found in the thoracic spine region (T8). Surgical management of the tumors was performed. The patient received gait training 20 days after surgery (postoperative acute phase) using a hybrid assistive limb (HAL). HAL is a wearable exoskeleton cyborg that provides real-time assistance to an individual for walking and limb movements through actuators mounted on the bilateral hip and knee joints. Walking ability was assessed using the 10 m walking test, which included evaluating walking speed, step length, and cadence in every session. To evaluate the immediate effects of HAL training, walking speed and step length were measured before and after the training in each session. During the 10 m walking test, gait kinematics and lower muscle activity were recorded using a motion capture system and wireless surface electromyography before the first session and after completion of all HAL sessions. After the HAL training sessions, improvement in the patient\u2019s gait performance was observed in the gait joint angles and muscle activity of the lower limb. After 10 training sessions, we observed the following changes from baseline: walking speed (from 0.16 m\/s to 0.3 m\/s), step length (from 0.19 m to 0.37 m), and cadence (from 50.9 steps\/min to 49.1 steps\/min). The average standard deviations of the knee (from right, 7.31; left, 6.75; to right, 2.93; p &lt; 0.01, left, 2.63; p &lt; 0.01) and ankle joints (from right, 6.98; left, 5.40; to right, 2.39; p &lt; 0.01, left, 2.18; p &lt; 0.01) were significantly decreased. Additionally, walking speed and step length improved immediately after completing all the HAL training sessions. This suggests that HAL gait training might be a suitable physical rehabilitation program for patients with sensory ataxia causing dysfunctional movement of the lower limb.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina58121825","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,12]],"date-time":"2022-12-12T03:36:09Z","timestamp":1670816169000},"page":"1825","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Postoperative Acute-Phase Gait Training Using Hybrid Assistive Limb Improves Gait Ataxia in a Patient with Intradural Spinal Cord Compression Due to Spinal Tumors"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"58","author":[{"given":"Yuichiro","family":"Soma","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4455-4585","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shigeki","family":"Kubota","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2953-6434","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hideki","family":"Kadone","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Innovating Medicine and Engineering (CIME), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7491-4516","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yukiyo","family":"Shimizu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0292-3493","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yasushi","family":"Hada","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Masao","family":"Koda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yoshiyuki","family":"Sankai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-0006, Ibaraki, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9293-3531","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Masashi","family":"Yamazaki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8576, Ibaraki, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"406","DOI":"10.1038\/sj.sc.3102152","article-title":"Incidence of non-traumatic spinal cord injury in Victoria, Australia: A population-based study and literature review","volume":"46","author":"New","year":"2008","journal-title":"Spinal Cord"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"97","DOI":"10.1038\/sc.2012.165","article-title":"Global maps of non-traumatic spinal cord injury epidemiology: Towards a living data repository","volume":"52","author":"New","year":"2014","journal-title":"Spinal Cord"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"353","DOI":"10.1071\/AH060353","article-title":"Non-traumatic spinal cord injury: What is the ideal setting for rehabilitation?","volume":"30","author":"New","year":"2006","journal-title":"Aust. 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