Walking is the most important function of daily living limited walking ability that follows a stroke restricts the patients independent mobility in the home and community and causes a low blood pressure, spasm, depression, degenerative changes in joints etc.
Patients can easily follow the test instruction; can easily manage in their home environments, feels independence in their self, can assess how well patient is participating in their treatment, gait retraining, improve balance etc.
The timed 10 m walk test is commonly used tool in clinical practice for measuring outcome following stroke it is quick simple and inexpensive. (Wade, 1992) .
Currently available gait assessment tools range from complex and expensive laboratory involving detailed analyses of kinematics and kinetics variables to simple measures used in the clinical setting such as timed 10 m walk test. (Wade DT, Wood VA).
High costs and problems with accessibility make laboratory gait analyses impractical for wide spread clinical use. Clinically based measures have the possible advantages of immediate availability, ease of administration, ease of interpretation, and low cost. .
(Wolf SL, Stephen K).
Activity is the execution of the task or action by an individual: Participation is involvement. Activity limitations are difficulties an individual may have in executing activities. Participation restrictions are problems an individual may have involvement in life situation. (ICF check list).
Activity is defined as the performance of a task or action. Although it is impossible to list all activities, Activity limitations would be manifested by a change in the performance and capacity of that activity for that person. Someone who has not capacity to walk would be considered activity limitation.
Some of patients after the stroke don't find there self-able to walk so after working on their conditions physiotherapist assess them by taking 10 m walk test and review the treatment plan for patient.