Learning and interlimb transfer of new gait patterns are facilitated by distributed practice across days.

The participants were healthy young adults with no major orthopedic or neurological conditions, so the results may not apply to patients with gait deficits. The paper does not state how participants were assigned to the massed or distributed practice groups. The untrained leg was not recorded during training, so subtle practice with that leg cannot be ruled out. The massed group had one-minute rests between blocks, so this was not continuous practice with no rest. The study did not test how long the learning and transfer effects last. The task was treadmill foot-trajectory tracking, not a clinical measure of walking function.

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Do not conclude that spacing gait practice improves clinical walking in stroke or cerebral palsy. The study tested healthy adults learning a treadmill foot-tracking task, and it did not measure patient function or long-term retention.