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NCT Number: NCT02263560

Supraspinal Contributions to the Control of Human Locomotion: Clinical and Fundamental Aspects

Many neurological patients express enhanced deficits while walking in a dark room (or during the night): the supraspinal structures involved in this navigational deficit have not been identified yet. In this project, the investigators will study post-stroke gaits of human patients and compare them to those of a control population during a goal-oriented task performed in different visual conditions.

The investigators want to test the hypothesis that during simple goal-oriented locomotor tasks, only patients with specific (e.g. medio or infero- temporal) lesions will express navigational deficits.

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Key information

Conditions

Post-stroke Gait Assessments

Age range

18 year–85 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

University (UNIFR) and Hospital of Fribourg (HFR)

Fribourg, 1700, Switzerland

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

(for matching controls):

  • Adult male and female subjects (18-->85 years old)

Exclusion criteria

(for matching controls):

  • Persons with history of an acquired or congenital neurological disorder, e.g. stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, increased intracranial pressure, etc.;
  • Persons injured at the time of the experiments (fractures,…);
  • Persons having reported repetitive spatial troubles/disorders;
  • Persons with eye disorders and non-corrected vision problems;
  • Pregnant women.

Treatment and study plan

Kinematic measurements

Behavioral

Primary outcomes

  1. Walking stability indices of post-stroke patients

    Time frame: 1 hour and 30 minutes (including pre-tests, instructions delivery...).

  2. Spatial accuracy of walking trajectories in post-stroke patients

    Time frame: 1 hour and 30 minutes (including pre-tests, instructions delivery...).

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Fribourg

Other

Collaborators

  • Dr Titus Bihl, Hopital Cantonal Fribourgeois

Registry information

Acronym: SUPLOCO

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2015
Study completion
2016
First posted
Oct 13, 2014
Registry last updated
Oct 25, 2017

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