Aerobic Walking Exercise for Non-Ambulatory Stroke Survivors

Stroke Clinical Trial

Official title:

Aerobic Walking Exercise for Non-Ambulatory Stroke Survivors

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03479632
• Other study ID #: STUDY00140799
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 5, 2018
• Est. completion date: March 5, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: March 2019
• Source: University of Kansas Medical Center
• Contact: Abdulfattah Alqahtani
• Phone: 832-228-8799
• Email: aalqahtani[@]kumc.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

By doing this study, researchers hope to learn the effects of aerobic exercise on heart, lung, and bone health in people who cannot walk after a stroke.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: March 5, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: December 5, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Independent ambulation before stroke

• Be able to understand and follow verbal commands in English

• Have physicians' approval for exercise, and be in stable medical condition

• Participant's first stroke

• Unable to walk independently according to Functional Ambulation Category (FAC) (<2) after in-patient rehabilitation treatment

• Between 6 weeks to 5 years after stroke onset

Exclusion Criteria:

• Current cardiovascular abnormalities other than stroke such as ischemic cardiovascular event or coronary artery bypass surgery less than 3 months ago

• Musculoskeletal disorder which prevents subjects from participating in the exercise

• Resting blood pressure more than 200/110 mm Hg

• Current or previous pulmonary diseases in the past two years

• Osteoporosis and restricted passive movement in the major joints of the lower limbs

• Subjects will be excluded if they are unable to speak or understand English and/or unable to travel to the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) Neuromuscular Research Laboratory

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Stroke

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Aerobic walking program
Participants will make 24 visits over an 8 week period, having 3 sessions per week. Each session will last about one hour.
• Standard physical therapy
Participants will receive standard care they normally would after a stroke.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Kansas Medical Center	Kansas City	Kansas

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Kansas Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Resting Heart Rate		Change from Baseline to Week 8
Secondary	Resting blood pressure		Change from Baseline to Week 8
Secondary	Change in vital capacity (VC)		Change from Baseline to Week 8
Secondary	Change in forced vital capacity (FVC)		Change from Baseline to Week 8