BACKGROUND: Stroke has been defined as an acute onset of neurological condition due to improper cerebral circulation. Stroke is synonymously termed as "cerebral vascular accident", "brain attack" or "apoplexy". According to the Indian Council of Research among the non-communicable disease, stroke contributes for 41% of death and 72% of disability. People surviving acute stroke won't be able to walk and require prolonged period of rehabilitation to attain functional level of ambulation. Restoration of gait forms the major goal of stroke rehabilitation, requiring usage of various methods and demanding considerable assistance from therapist to aid patient's support their body weight and control balance. METHODS: A simple randomized sampling was done and pretest and posttest experimental method was used giving one group with conventional training and other group with Body weight support treadmill training. RESULTS: Group given with body weight tread mill training showed significant improvement than the group receiving conventional treatment in spatiotemporal gait parameters, walking speed, endurance, and mobility. CONCLUSIONS: The study demonstrates that 6 weeks of body weight support treadmill training along with conventional physiotherapy is superior to conventional therapy alone in improving functional ambulation and gait parameters.

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