Status:

UNKNOWN

Influences of Cane Use on Voluntary Forward Stepping Movement and Associated Attentional Demands in Hemiplegic Patients

Lead Sponsor:

National Taiwan University Hospital

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan

Conditions:

Stroke

Eligibility:

All Genders

30-75 years

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of cane use on the movement, kinetics, and associated attentional demands of performing a voluntary forward stepping movement in patients with st...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Inclusion Criteria:
  • Healthy subjects
  • Age ang Sex are correspond with the stroke subjects(between 30 and 75 years old)
  • being willing to sign an informed consent approved by the Human Subjects Committee of the National Taiwan University Hospital
  • Stroke subjects
  • between 30 and 75 years old
  • stroke confirmed by ICD-10-CM (including I60, I61, I62, I63, I67, and I63.9)
  • first stroke with single side hemiplegia 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 stand independently for 10 minutes and to forward step without ankle-foot orthosis
  • Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score at least 24
  • Excursion criteria:
  • Healthy subjects
  • having other neurological diseases, or moderate to severe neuromuscular or musculoskeletal disorders, or disorders from systematic diseases those would influence the belance or motor ability
  • Stroke subjects
  • 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 those will influence standing ability other than stroke
  • having hemi-neglect or hemi-anopia

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    August 1 2002

    Trial Type :

    OBSERVATIONAL

    End Date :

    July 1 2003

    Estimated Enrollment :

    22 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00172146

    Start Date

    August 1 2002

    End Date

    July 1 2003

    Last Update

    September 15 2005

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

    Taipei, Province of China, Taiwan, 100