Wheelchair Indoors Curling With SCI patients_RCT

Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trial

— SCI-RCT  

Official title:

The Effects of Indoors Curling Exercise in Persons With Chronic Spinal Cord Injury on Control Capabilities of Trunk Movements: a Randomized-controlled Trial.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02550834
• Other study ID #: 44408
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• First received: September 9, 2015
• Last updated: February 23, 2016
• Start date: August 2015
• Est. completion date: February 2016

Study information

• Verified date: February 2016
• Source: HES-SO Valais-Wallis
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Commission cantonale valaisanne d'éthique médicale, Switzwerland ':'
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study investigates if, patients with diagnosed chronic spinal cord injury will benefit from an Indoor Curling Exercise program on their control capabilities of trunk movements and on their intrinsic motivation for physical activity. Half of participants will receive 8 training-sessions during 4 weeks, while the other will receive usual care.

Description:

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a catastrophic event that can be devastating and costly in human and social terms. These patients require multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary treatment. Physiotherapy is important factor in SCI rehabilitation.

The objectives of physiotherapists are manifold and include the development of the force of healthy muscles, the teaching of transfer techniques, the maintenance of joint motion and of the body map, and the reestablishment of sitting balance in order for the patients to regain their autonomy.

Maintaining postural stability when seated is a challenge for people with a SCI as their sensory and motor systems in their trunk, lower and upper extremities have been damaged to different degrees. To train this postural stability, physiotherapists include many interventions. Physical activities in sport therapy are some of them. In addition to usual physical activities (basketball, tennis, wheelchair running,…) the investigators propose to practice wheelchair Indoors Curling Exercise with wooden Curling Stones.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 32
• Est. completion date: February 2016
• Est. primary completion date: December 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Traumatic, non-traumatic or ischemic Spinal Cord Injury with complete or incomplete para- or tetraplegia

• Complete spinal cord status (ASIA Score)

• Sitting capabilities = 4 hours

• Capability to bench 20° forward in trunk flexion

• Signed informed consent after being informed

Exclusion Criteria:

• Progressives pathologies

• Problem in vestibular system

• Severely impaired vision

• Tetraplegia without hand function

• Acute pain

• Contraindications on ethical grounds

• Previously reduced capabilities of cooperation

• Know or suspected non-compliance

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Spinal Cord Injuries
• Spinal Cord Injury

Intervention

Other:
• Wheelchair indoors curling training
8x 90 minutes of training and playing indoors curling in 4 weeks

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Switzerland	Clinique romande de réadaptation CRR-SUVA	Sion	Valais
Switzerland	Uniklink Balgrist	Zurich

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
HES-SO Valais-Wallis	Clinique Romande de Réadaptation CRR-Suva, Uniklinik Balgrist, Zürich

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Switzerland, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Sitting balance	Control capabilities of trunk movement (6-channel inertial sensor by 25 cycles per minute, back-and-forth trunk movements), Modified Functional Reach Test	8 weeks	Yes
Secondary	Intrinsic Motivation	Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI)	8 weeks	No