Affective Responses in Neurological Rehabilitation

Universitaet Innsbruck

Status: Completed

Conditions: Traumatic Brain Injury; Stroke; Neurological Incidents

Treatments: Procedure: Physical therapy and robotic assisted gait training

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02767466

APTRAGT001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Using a single blind within-subject design, 16 patients with neurological disorders were randomly exposed to two different treatments: physical therapy and robotic assisted gait training. Both before and after the treatments, a self-report Mood Survey Scale (MSS) was used to assess the effects on the treatment on distinct affective states. The subscales of the MSS were tested for pre-post changes and different effects between treatments with non-parametric tests.

Enrollment: 16 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• voluntary participation
• neurological incident

Exclusion criteria

• lack of communication ability
• interference of consciousness
• inability to speak German language

Trial design

16 participants in 1 patient group

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Description:

All participants were randomly exposed to two different treatments: Conventional physical therapy (no specific device used) Robotic assisted gait training (Lokomat, Hocoma AG, Switzerland) We consider the study as observational, since the both interventions of the study (physical therapy, robotic assisted gait training) did not change in the patients' usual therapy plan, as they received both interventions daily. We only added diagnostic interventions to assess the affective responses.

Treatment:

Procedure: Physical therapy and robotic assisted gait training