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

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

This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.

Sponsors and Collaborators:	National Taiwan University Hospital National Science Council, Taiwan
Information provided by:	National Taiwan University Hospital
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00167089

Purpose

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

Condition	Intervention
Stroke	Behavioral: Treadmill Training

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Educational/Counseling/Training, Randomized, Open Label, Active Control, Parallel Assignment, Safety/Efficacy Study

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

Further study details as provided by National Taiwan University Hospital:

Primary Outcome Measures:

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

Secondary Outcome Measures:

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

Estimated Enrollment:	40
Study Start Date:	August 1998
Estimated Study Completion Date:	July 1999

Detailed 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.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	40 Years to 75 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

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

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00167089

Locations


Taiwan, Province of China
	School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy College of Medicine, National Taiwan University
	Taipei, Province of China, Taiwan, 100

Sponsors and Collaborators

National Taiwan University Hospital

National Science Council, Taiwan

Investigators


Principal Investigator:	Pei-Fang Tang, PhD	National Taiwan University Hospital

More Information

Study ID Numbers:	47s1
First Received:	September 12, 2005
Last Updated:	September 12, 2005
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00167089
Health Authority:	Taiwan: Department of Health

Keywords provided by National Taiwan University Hospital:

Stroke

Hemiplegia

Gait

Ambulation training

Neurologic physical therapy

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Hemiplegia

Cerebral Infarction

Stroke

Vascular Diseases

Brain Ischemia

Central Nervous System Diseases

Ischemia

Brain Infarction

Brain Diseases

Infarction

Cerebrovascular Disorders

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Nervous System Diseases

Cardiovascular Diseases

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 05, 2008