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Force plates and wearable sensors can quantify propulsion but are not routinely available in clinical settings. Walking speed alone does not adequately capture the heterogeneity of propulsion deficits.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>To determine whether standardized clinical measures can estimate post- stroke propulsion metrics and classify propulsion impairment.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    Forty individuals post-stroke participated: 33 for model development and cross-validation (11 with repeated observations for longitudinal validation) and 7 for independent-cohort validation. Clinical measures included the 6-Minute Walk Test (6MWT), comfortable walking speed (CWS), Functional Gait Assessment (FGA), Fugl- Meyer Assessment of the Lower Extremity (FMA-LE), Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB), Timed Up and Go test (TUG), and stroke chronicity. Regression models were developed to estimate three propulsion metrics: paretic propulsion peak and impulse, and interlimb propulsion symmetry. Model performance was evaluated using R\n                    <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                    and RMSE. Propulsion impairment was classified from symmetry estimates using a prespecified cutoff of 31.5%, with classification accuracy reported.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    Models using the 6MWT, SPPB, TUG, and chronicity estimated paretic propulsion peak (R\n                    <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                    = 0.77, RMSE = 3.00 %body weight) and impulse (R\n                    <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                    = 0.81, RMSE = 0.65 %body weight\u00b7%stance phase). FMA-LE, SPPB, TUG, and chronicity estimated propulsion symmetry (R\n                    <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                    = 0.75, RMSE = 8.56%) and classified propulsion impairment with 84.8% accuracy. Classification accuracy was 91.7% in longitudinal validation and 85.7% in independent-cohort validation.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>A multidomain clinical assessment framework may support practical and accurate estimation and classification of post-stroke propulsion impairment in clinical settings where specialized instrumentation is unavailable.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.64898\/2026.09.30.26364361","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,2]],"date-time":"2026-10-02T23:20:13Z","timestamp":1790983213000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Beyond Walking Speed: Estimating and Classifying Post-Stroke Gait Propulsion From Standardized Clinical Measures"],"prefix":"10.64898","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-4521-016X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jie","family":"Fei","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physical Therapy, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3213-7584","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ruoxi","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physical Therapy, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0159-8011","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Louis N.","family":"Awad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physical Therapy, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"54368","reference":[{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.gaitpost.2018.10.027.Paretic"},{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/s12984-020-00747-6"},{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1161\/01.STR.0000204063.75779.8d"},{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/1545968314554625"},{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/s12984-020-00700-7"},{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/TNSRE.2025.3577961"},{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3389\/fspor.2023.1176466"},{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3390\/s20205744"},{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3389\/fdgth.2025.1534419"},{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.apmr.2006.02.022"},{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.apmr.2012.11.032"},{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/1545968315624780"},{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.13","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3390\/app16010134"},{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.14","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/1545968309343215"},{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.15","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.7759\/cureus.83128"},{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.16","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.gaitpost.2022.05.027"},{"key":"2026100610252825000_2026.09.30.26364361v1.17","unstructured":"Fei J , Wang R , Aiello AJ , et al. 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