Wheelchair Indoors Curling With SCI patients_RCT

The Effects of Indoors Curling Exercise in Persons With Chronic Spinal Cord Injury on Control Capabilities of Trunk Movements: a Randomized-controlled Trial.

Status

Completed

Phases

Phase 1Phase 2

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02550834

Acronym

SCI-RCT

Enrollment

Registered

2015-09-16

Start date

2015-08-31

Completion date

2016-02-29

Last updated

2016-02-24

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Conditions

Spinal Cord Injury

Keywords

Core stability, Indoors curling exercises, Motivation

Brief summary

This study investigates if, patients with diagnosed chronic spinal cord injury will benefit from an Indoor Curling Exercise program on their control capabilities of trunk movements and on their intrinsic motivation for physical activity. Half of participants will receive 8 training-sessions during 4 weeks, while the other will receive usual care.

Detailed description

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a catastrophic event that can be devastating and costly in human and social terms. These patients require multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary treatment. Physiotherapy is important factor in SCI rehabilitation. The objectives of physiotherapists are manifold and include the development of the force of healthy muscles, the teaching of transfer techniques, the maintenance of joint motion and of the body map, and the reestablishment of sitting balance in order for the patients to regain their autonomy. Maintaining postural stability when seated is a challenge for people with a SCI as their sensory and motor systems in their trunk, lower and upper extremities have been damaged to different degrees. To train this postural stability, physiotherapists include many interventions. Physical activities in sport therapy are some of them. In addition to usual physical activities (basketball, tennis, wheelchair running,…) the investigators propose to practice wheelchair Indoors Curling Exercise with wooden Curling Stones.

Interventions

OTHERWheelchair indoors curling training

8x 90 minutes of training and playing indoors curling in 4 weeks

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

CROSSOVER

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Traumatic, non-traumatic or ischemic Spinal Cord Injury with complete or incomplete para- or tetraplegia * Complete spinal cord status (ASIA Score) * Sitting capabilities ≥ 4 hours * Capability to bench 20° forward in trunk flexion * Signed informed consent after being informed

Exclusion criteria

* Progressives pathologies * Problem in vestibular system * Severely impaired vision * Tetraplegia without hand function * Acute pain * Contraindications on ethical grounds * Previously reduced capabilities of cooperation * Know or suspected non-compliance

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Sitting balance	8 weeks	Control capabilities of trunk movement (6-channel inertial sensor by 25 cycles per minute, back-and-forth trunk movements), Modified Functional Reach Test

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Intrinsic Motivation	8 weeks	Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI)

Countries

Switzerland

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026