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NCT Number: NCT00167089

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

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

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Key information

Conditions

Stroke Brain Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Cerebrovascular Disorders Hemiplegia Nervous System Diseases Neurologic Manifestations Paralysis Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Signs and Symptoms Vascular Diseases

Age range

40 year–75 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy College of Medicine, National Taiwan University

Taipei, Province of China, 100, Taiwan

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

Treadmill training

Behavioral

Partian body weight support treadmill training, 30 min/day * 3 days /week

Primary outcomes

  1. To investigate walking speed and stride length as the representation of ambulation ability

    Time frame: 3 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. 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

    Time frame: 3 months

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

National Taiwan University Hospital

Other

Collaborators

  • National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
1998
Primary completion
2000
Study completion
2000
First posted
Sep 14, 2005
Registry last updated
Oct 6, 2009

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