Fast Stepping in Stroke Patients for Fall Prediction and Prevention:Control Mechanisms and Clinical Implications

Stroke Clinical Trial

Official title:

Fast Stepping in Stroke Patients for Fall Prediction and Prevention:Control Mechanisms and Clinical Implications

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00167037
• Other study ID #: 56m3
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 12, 2005
• Last updated: September 12, 2005
• Start date: August 1999
• Est. completion date: July 2002

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 compare the balance strategy, as well as center of pressure (COP) trajectory and parameters between healthy adults and patients with hemiplegia in response to slow- and fast-speed waist- pulling perturbations in forward, left, right, and backward directions.

Description:

The ability to quickly respond to external perturbations is an important capacity of stroke patients to maintain dynamic balance in activities of daily living. The purpose of this study was to compare the balance strategy, as well as center of pressure (COP) trajectory and parameters between healthy adults and patients with hemiplegia in response to slow- and fast-speed waist- pulling perturbations in forward, left, right, and backward directions.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 60
• Est. completion date: July 2002
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 40 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

Healthy adults

• Age ang Sex are correspond with the stroke subjects(between 40 and 75 years old)

• being willing to accept one-year follow-up examination

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

• between 40 and 75 years old

• stroke confirmed by ICD-10-CM (including I60, I61, I62, I63, I67, and I69)

• 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 step forward, laterally and backward independently without assistive device

Excursion criteria:

Healthy adults

• - 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 patients

• 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 other than stroke

Study Design

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Stroke

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

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