Status:

COMPLETED

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

Lead Sponsor:

National Taiwan University Hospital

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan

Conditions:

Stroke

Eligibility:

All Genders

40-75 years

Phase:

NA

Brief 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.

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 ther...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • 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

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    August 1 1998

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    August 1 2000

    Estimated Enrollment :

    40 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00167089

    Start Date

    August 1 1998

    End Date

    August 1 2000

    Last Update

    October 6 2009

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

    Taipei, Province of China, Taiwan, 100