Effects of Early Treadmill Training on Ambulatory Ability in Stroke Patients: Electromyographic and Kinematic Analyses

Stroke Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effects of Early Treadmill Training on Ambulatory Ability in Stroke Patients: Electromyographic and Kinematic Analyses

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00167089
• Other study ID #: 47s1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 12, 2005
• Last updated: October 5, 2009
• Start date: August 1998
• Est. completion date: August 2000

Study information

• Verified date: September 2009
• Source: National Taiwan University Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Taiwan: Department of Health
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to explore an alternative approach that emphasizes task specificity and treadmill training for ambulation training of these patients.

Description:

Restoration of independent ambulatory ability is one of the most common functional goals of patients with hemiplegia after stroke. Ambulation training, therefore, is an important part of physical therapy intervention for these patients. Conventional neurologic physical therapy for ambulation training, based sorely on neurophysiology, prohibits early ambulation experience after stroke in attempt to avoid the development of abnormal gait patterns. Such an approach has been shown to be limited in helping these patients regain independent ambulatory ability.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: August 2000
• Est. primary completion date: August 2000
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 40 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• between 40 and 75 years old

• first stroke with R't side hemiplegia due to middle cerebral artery occlusion 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 ambulate independently in parallel bars and having no independent ambulation ability outside parallel bars

Excursion criteria:

• 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

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Stroke

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Treadmill Training
Partian body weight support treadmill training, 30 min/day * 3 days /week

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, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	To investigate walking speed and stride length as the representation of ambulation ability		3 months	No
Secondary	To investigate the the co-activation duration between the activity of hamstring and quadriceps, and tibialis anterior and gastrocnemius joints, the level of symmetry in step length and stance/swing duration ratio between the affected and unaffected legs		3 months	No