Combining Active Living Programme (ALP) With Home-Use Wearable Technical Aids (WTA)

Kowloon Hospital, Hong Kong

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke; Foot Drop (Acquired)

Treatments: Device: Active Living programme and wearable technical aids; Device: Wearable technical aids

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05159635

KC/KE-17-0187/FR-3

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of adopting a home-use Wearable Technical Aids (WTA) with the structured Active Living Program (ALP) to promote community participation in young stroke patients.

Full description

Two groups of patients would receive Wearable Technical Aids Training or Wearable Technical Aids Training and structured Active Living Program (ALP) for 8 sessions.

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-diagnosed with foot drop with tibialis anterior muscle strength between 1 to 3- out of 5 in manual muscle testing for more than six months due to cerebrovascular accident (CVA)

Exclusion criteria

• pre-existing orthopedic conditions affecting ambulation
• subjects who are incompetent in giving written consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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12 participants in 2 patient groups

Active Living programme and wearable technical aids

Experimental group

Description:

Active Living programme and wearable technical aids

Treatment:

Device: Active Living programme and wearable technical aids

Wearable technical aids

Active Comparator group

Description:

Wearable technical aids

Treatment:

Device: Wearable technical aids