Dual-task Obstacle Crossing Training in Ambulatory Subjects With Spinal Cord Injury

Khon Kaen University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Injuries, Spinal Cord

Treatments: Other: Dual-task obstacle crossing training; Other: Single-task obstacle crossing training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02917590

PHD/0128/2556

Details and patient eligibility

About

Is dual-task obstacle crossing training more efficiently than single-task obstacle crossing training on the improvement of walking ability, balance ability, and lower extremity muscle strength in ambulatory subjects with spinal cord injury

Full description

To compare immediate effects of dual-task and single-task obstacle crossing training in ambulatory subjects with spinal cord injury

Enrollment: 7 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• independent ambulatory subjects with
• traumatic causes or non-progressive diseases
• sub-acute and chronic stage of injury (at least 3 month after injury)
• body mass index (BMI) between 18.5-29.9 kg/m2
• walk independently for at least 17 meters with or without assistive devices (Functional Independence Measure Locomotor (FIM-L) scores 5-7)
• able to read Thai

Exclusion criteria

• pain in the musculoskeletal system with a pain scale more than 5 out of 10 on a the visual analog scale (VAS)
• deformity in the joints that affect ambulatory ability
• unable to understand the commands and tests used in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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7 participants in 2 patient groups

Dual-task obstacle crossing training

Experimental group

Description:

The four obstacles in the sizes of 4cm wide, 8cm wide, 4cm high, and 8cm high are randomly placed along a 10-meter walkway in 2-meter intervals. Subjects are instructed to walk continuously over obstacles at their comfortable speed, as good as they can without contact the obstacles by their leg or device. During walk over obstacles, subjects asked to perform simultaneously with a color word stroop task which requires subjects to see and answer the color of the name of a color words in the monitor (ignore the meaning) as quickly as possible, and loudly.

Treatment:

Other: Dual-task obstacle crossing training

Single-task obstacle crossing training

Sham Comparator group

Description:

The four obstacles in the sizes of 4cm wide, 8cm wide, 4cm high, and 8cm high are randomly placed along a 10-meter walkway in 2-meter intervals. Subjects are asked to walk continuously over obstacles at their comfortable speed, as good as they can without contact the obstacles by their leg or device.

Treatment:

Other: Single-task obstacle crossing training