Influences of Cane Use on Voluntary Forward Stepping Movement and Associated Attentional Demands in Hemiplegic Patients

Inclusion Criteria: Healthy subjects * Age ang Sex are correspond with the stroke subjects(between 30 and 75 years old) * being willing to sign an informed consent approved by the Human Subjects Committee of the National Taiwan University Hospital Stroke subjects * between 30 and 75 years old * stroke confirmed by ICD-10-CM (including I60, I61, I62, I63, I67, and I63.9) * first stroke with single side hemiplegia and received acute treatment at NTUH * being willing to sign an informed consent approved by the Human Subjects Committee of the National Taiwan University Hospital * able to stand independently for 10 minutes and to forward step without ankle-foot orthosis * Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score at least 24 Excursion criteria: Healthy subjects * having other neurological diseases, or moderate to severe neuromuscular or musculoskeletal disorders, or disorders from systematic diseases those would influence the belance or motor ability Stroke subjects * having unstable vital sign, unconsciousness, or obvious cognitive, perception, and language impairment, and couldn't communicate with the experimenters * having other neurological diseases, or moderate to severe neuromuscular or musculoskeletal or cardiovascular disorders, or disorders from systematic diseases those will influence standing ability other than stroke * having hemi-neglect or hemi-anopia