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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of falling exercise program in parallel treadmill gait training on balance and gait in chronic stroke patients. Chronic stroke patients who use walking assistance devices (cane, AFO) when walking were selected as research subjects, and ten were assigned to the experimental group and another ten were assigned to the control group. Experiment took place once a day for 30 minutes. For experimental group, walking exercise took place after implementing experience of falling on treadmill around three times and determining that it was safe to execute the exercise. Control group conducted an exercise of walking 20 meters of distance back and forth indoors, and assessment of effect was measured by estimating BBS, TUG, 10mWT, 6MWT and a degree of community walking. For the examination of effect before and after mediation in each group, control group showed significant differences in all assessment criteria except for 10 meter walking speed examination, and experimental group showed significant differences in all assessment criteria. To conclude, ground walking exercise and treadmill walking exercise group with compensation for falling applied are both effective in increasing the balance and walking ability of hemiparalysis patients. Also, variation amount comparison of two groups revealed that suspension treadmill walking exercise group applied on chronic stroke patients is more effective for walking of hemiparalysis patients than ground walking exercise.