Influences of Cane Use on Voluntary Forward Stepping Movement and Associated Attentional Demands in Hemiplegic Patients

Stroke Clinical Trial

Official title:

Influences of Cane Use on Voluntary Forward Stepping Movement and Associated Attentional Demands in Hemiplegic Patients

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00172146
• Other study ID #: 9361700329
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 12, 2005
• Last updated: September 12, 2005
• Start date: August 2002
• Est. completion date: July 2003

Study information

• Verified date: September 2005
• Source: National Taiwan University Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Taiwan: Department of Health
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of cane use on the movement, kinetics, and associated attentional demands of performing a voluntary forward stepping movement in patients with stroke and age-matched healthy adults.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 22
• Est. completion date: July 2003
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 30 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

Healthy subjects

• Age ang Sex are correspond with the stroke subjects(between 30 and 75 years old)

• being willing to sign an informed consent approved by the Human Subjects Committee of the National Taiwan University Hospital

Stroke subjects

• between 30 and 75 years old

• stroke confirmed by ICD-10-CM (including I60, I61, I62, I63, I67, and I63.9)

• first stroke with single side hemiplegia and received acute treatment at NTUH

• being willing to sign an informed consent approved by the Human Subjects Committee of the National Taiwan University Hospital

• able to stand independently for 10 minutes and to forward step without ankle-foot orthosis

• Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score at least 24

Excursion criteria:

Healthy subjects

• having other neurological diseases, or moderate to severe neuromuscular or musculoskeletal disorders, or disorders from systematic diseases those would influence the belance or motor ability

Stroke subjects

• having unstable vital sign, unconsciousness, or obvious cognitive, perception, and language impairment, and couldn't communicate with the experimenters

• having other neurological diseases, or moderate to severe neuromuscular or musculoskeletal or cardiovascular disorders, or disorders from systematic diseases those will influence standing ability other than stroke

• having hemi-neglect or hemi-anopia

Study Design

Observational Model: Case Control, Primary Purpose: Screening, Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Stroke

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy College of Medicine, National Taiwan University	Taipei	Province of China

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Taiwan University Hospital	National Science Council, Taiwan

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan,