The Effect of Backward Walking Treadmill Training on Balance in Patient With Chronic Stroke

Stroke Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Purpose of This Study Was to Discuss on the Effects of Backward Walking Treadmill Training on Balance Ability, Speed of Walking and Cardiopulmonary Fitness for Patient With Chronic Stroke

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02619110
• Other study ID #: KMUH-IRB-20130288
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 17, 2015
• Last updated: November 29, 2015
• Start date: February 2014
• Est. completion date: December 2014

Study information

• Verified date: February 2015
• Source: Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Taiwan: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this research was to discuss the effect of backward walking treadmill training on balance ability, speed of walking and cardiopulmonary fitness in patients with chronic stroke.

Description:

Walking training is a good method and strategy to improve postural stability, balance, gait symmetry, and increase walking ability. Generally, there are many walking training theories and methods for patients with chronic stroke and treadmill walking training is applied in recent years. Previous studies showed that patients with stroke improve the walking abilities and speed after the walking treadmill training. However, most studies have demonstrated that forward walking treadmill training improved balance and walking ability in patients with stroke, but fewer studies have investigated the effects on backward walking treadmill training. However, no studies to date have investigated the effects of backward walking treadmill training for patients with chronic stroke.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: December 2014
• Est. primary completion date: December 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 60 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• This experiment recruited subjects with chronic stroke more than six months, whose level of Brunnstrom stage was beyond IV and who were able to walk more than eleven meters with or without assistive devices

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Stroke

Intervention

Other:
• backward walking treadmill training
subjects accepted 30 minutes backward walking treadmill training. a week for four weeks.
• conventional physical therapy
subjects accepted 30 minutes traditional physical therapy three times a week for four weeks

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	Kaohsiung Medical University	Kaohsiung

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

References & Publications (1)

Mathers CD, Loncar D. Projections of global mortality and burden of disease from 2002 to 2030. PLoS medicine 3(11):e442, 2006. Mendis S. Stroke disability and rehabilitation of stroke: World Health Organization perspective. International journal of stroke

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Timed 10-Meter Walk Test (10 MWT)		10 minutes	Yes
Other	6-minute walk test (6 MWT)		6-minute	Yes
Other	Up and Go test (TUG)		Baseline, week 4.	Yes
Primary	The change of Berg Balance Scale (BBS)		Baseline, week 4.	Yes
Secondary	The change of pulmonary function test (PFT): forced vital capacity (FVC) and Forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1)		Baseline, week 4.	Yes