Highlights
- •The dual tasking is poorly standardized and has never been validated in a matched healthy control group.
- •The dual task cost is higher in MS respect controls in speed cadence, stride time, stance phase and swing phase duration.
- •Dual task cost is present in MS and healthy control, but the motor cost in MS is higher.
- •This work provides a validate basis for future studies about cognitive motor interference in MS.
Abstract
Background
The dual task paradigm (the simultaneous performance of motor and cognitive task)
is used in a laboratory setting to evaluate walking impairments that affect patients’
daily lives. Although promising, it is poorly standardized and neither the cognitive
task nor the motor task have been validated in a matched healthy control group (HC)
for multiple sclerosis (MS).
Objective
Our aim was to set up a standardized instrument to evaluate cognitive motor interference
in MS using the interference test par excellence: the stroop colour word test (SCWT).
Methods
Patients with MS and HC underwent 3D gait analysis with a dual task protocol, using
the SCWT as a cognitive task. Gait performance impairment during the dual task was
evaluated by dual task cost (DTC). A MANOVA was used to verify the effect of status
(MS, HC) on DTC, calculated for the spatiotemporal parameter of the gait.
Results
In MS, the DTC was higher for the following gait parameters: speed (p = .013), cadence
(p = .004), stride time (p = .005) stance phase (p < .001), and swing phase duration
(p = .032).
Conclusion
DTC is present in MS and HC, but the motor cost in MS is higher. The present work
provides a useful and validated basis for future studies about cognitive motor interference
in MS.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: February 24, 2018
Accepted:
February 23,
2018
Received in revised form:
January 16,
2018
Received:
November 6,
2017
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