Stroke
Conditions
Keywords
Chronic Stroke, cardiopulmonary, Berg Balance Scale (BBS)
Brief summary
The purpose of this research was to discuss the effect of backward walking treadmill training on balance ability, speed of walking and cardiopulmonary fitness in patients with chronic stroke.
Detailed description
Walking training is a good method and strategy to improve postural stability, balance, gait symmetry, and increase walking ability. Generally, there are many walking training theories and methods for patients with chronic stroke and treadmill walking training is applied in recent years. Previous studies showed that patients with stroke improve the walking abilities and speed after the walking treadmill training. However, most studies have demonstrated that forward walking treadmill training improved balance and walking ability in patients with stroke, but fewer studies have investigated the effects on backward walking treadmill training. However, no studies to date have investigated the effects of backward walking treadmill training for patients with chronic stroke.
Interventions
subjects accepted 30 minutes backward walking treadmill training. a week for four weeks.
OTHERconventional physical therapy
subjects accepted 30 minutes traditional physical therapy three times a week for four weeks
Sponsors
Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
60 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* This experiment recruited subjects with chronic stroke more than six months, whose level of Brunnstrom stage was beyond IV and who were able to walk more than eleven meters with or without assistive devices
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The change of Berg Balance Scale (BBS) | Baseline, week 4. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The change of pulmonary function test (PFT): forced vital capacity (FVC) and Forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) | Baseline, week 4. |
Other
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Timed 10-Meter Walk Test (10 MWT) | 10 minutes |
| 6-minute walk test (6 MWT) | 6-minute |
| Up and Go test (TUG) | Baseline, week 4. |
Countries
Taiwan
Outcome results
None listed