You have just completed an evaluation of a patient in your outpatient clinic. This patient needs gait training after sustaining a stroke. Which of the following tasks would be considered "gait training" instead of "ambulating" with the patient?

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Gait training involves specific techniques and exercises to improve a patient's ability to walk. Facilitating advancement of the patient's hemiparetic leg during treadmill training is an example of gait training, as it targets specific aspects of the patient's gait pattern. Ambulating with the patient (option A) involves simply walking with the patient and does not necessarily incorporate targeted gait training techniques. Guarding the patient during treadmill walking (option C) is important for safety but does not involve specific gait training techniques. Transporting portable oxygen (option D) is not related to gait training.

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