Body Weight Supported Treadmill Training as Physical Therapy Treatment to Spinal Cord Injury Patients

University of Ioannina

Status: Completed

Conditions: Spinal Cord Injury/Damage

Treatments: Procedure: BWSTT (3 days a week for maximum of 20 minutes session)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02031835

UIoannina612014

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this current prospective study is to assess the effects of body weight support treadmill training (BWSTT) in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Training intervention aim at improving: quality of life, walking capability, spasticity, functions in every day life, bone mass density and related hematological factors. The examination consisted of (1) neurological classification by ASIA standard neurological classification of spinal cord injury working sheet, (2) spasticity evaluation of lower limbs by Modified Ashworth Scale, (3) walking independence evaluation by Walking Index for Spinal Cord Injury II (WISCI II), (4) patient's quality of life perspective by World Health Quality of Life- BREF (WHOQOL-BREF), (5) the functional status by 10-item Modified Barthel Index, (6) bone mass density (BMD) by Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scan, (7) body tissue consistency by full body DXA scan, (8) skeletal system health associated blood factors (calcitonin, osteocalcin, 25 OH vitamin D, 1,25- (OH)2 vitamin D, ostase and parathyroid hormone) by hematological tests. The results will be collected and evaluated using statistical software (i.e. SPSS).

Enrollment: 26 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 88 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• SCI
• ASIA classification B, C or D
• clinical stable

Exclusion criteria

• unstable cardiac conditions
• epilepsy
• autonomic dysreflexia
• significant musculoskeletal problems in lower extremities other than SCI
• Parkinson's disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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26 participants in 1 patient group

BWSTT (3 days a week for maximum of 20 minutes session)

Other group

Description:

BWSTT (20 minutes of treadmill training (velocity (≥0.1km/h) and body weight support (≤40% of patients weight) according to patients capability and comfort

Treatment:

Procedure: BWSTT (3 days a week for maximum of 20 minutes session)