Cerebral Stroke, Hemiplegia, Moderate to Severe Functional Impairments
Conditions
Keywords
Brain Injury, Rehabilitation, Treadmill therapy
Brief summary
Introduction. * There is a demand for evidence whether treadmill therapy is more efficient than traditional walking training as an intervention for patients with hemiplegia after cerebral stroke. Design. * A randomized controlled trial. Material. * Stroke patients with moderate to severe functional deficits referred to inpatient medical rehabilitation. Method. * Comparing a treatment group receiving treadmill training with body weight support with a treatment group receiving conventional walking training. Study aim: * Investigate whether treadmill therapy is more effective than traditional functional training in restoring walking and transfer in patients with moderate to severe ambulatory deficits after stroke.
Detailed description
See Brief Summary.
Interventions
OTHERTreadmill therapy and conventional walking therapy.
The experimental group received 30 sessions of treadmill therapy with body weight support for a time period of 10 weeks. The conventional group received traditional walking therapy for the same time period.
Sponsors
University of Bergen
Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Investigator)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Cerebral stoke * Hemiplegia * Primary rehabilitation * Medical stable * Wheelchair user * Dependent of assistance for walking * Dependent of maximum one person for transfer * No physical impairments that could prevent walking ability from being restored * Able to participate in the training modalities
Exclusion criteria
* Medical unstable * Orthopaedic or other impairments preventing relearning walking * Cognitive impairments that prevents understanding the study information * Cognitive or psychological impairments that prevents study collaboration
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Functional Ambulation Categories. Ten meter walking test. Six minutes walking test. Functional Independence Measure (task 9 shorter transfer and task 13 stairs). | 0, 5 weeks and 10 weeks. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| EU-Walking Index. Time of Shorter transfer. Time of Climbing stairs. Performance of climbing stairs. Heart rate registration. * Temporospatial 3D gait data (a sub group analysis). ** Semistructured interview. | 0, 5 and 10 weeks, * 0 and 10 weeks, **10 weeks. |
Countries
Norway
Outcome results
None listed