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Dry Needle Therapy Combined with Rehabilitation Therapy to Improve Gait Function in Patients after Stroke with Lower limbs Spasticity and Knee Hyperextension: A Randomized Controlled Study

Clinical observation of Dry Needle Therapy Combined with Rehabilitation Therapy to Improve Gait Function in Patients after Stroke with lower limbs Spasticity and Knee Hyperextension (Y20190043)

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Early Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Source
ChiCTR
Registry ID
ChiCTR2100051347
Enrollment
Unknown
Registered
2021-09-21
Start date
2019-07-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2022-11-07

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Conditions

Stroke

Interventions

experimental group:Dry Needling Therapy Combined with Rehabilitation

Sponsors

The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Cerebral hemorrhage or cerebral infarction was diagnosed by head CT or MRI, the course of disease was 6; 4. The diagnostic criteria for Knee hyperextension c onform to Loudon knee, and the ability to walk with knee hyperextension gait; 5. Patient's holden functional walking grade >= I grade but < grade V; 6. Consciousness, stable vital signs.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Combined with serious heart, liver, kidney, blood system diseases and endocrine system and other serious primary diseases; 2. Combined with lower extremity musculoskeletal system diseases, such as knee arthritis, femoral head fracture, etc., which affect walking function; 3. Combined with other nerves Systemic diseases or damages such as Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, peripheral neuropathy, etc.; 4. Patients who cannot cooperate with acupuncture treatment.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Effectiveness of knee hyperextension treatment;Number of occurrencing knee hyperextension during 10m walking;Ankle CSI score;Passive ankle dorsiflexion angle during knee extension;Musculoskeletal ultrasound measurement of the pinnate angle , muscle fiber length, and muscle thickness of the medial head of the gastrocnemius;

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Fugl-Meyer score for lower limbs;10meter maximum walking test,10MWT;Barthel index score;unctional ambula— tion category scale;

Countries

China

Contacts

Public ContactYanyan Zhu

The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University

114979907@qq.com+86 13819713112

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ChiCTR (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026