Effect of Ankle-foot Orthoses on Balance Confidence (ABCOGS)

University Rehabilitation Institute, Republic of Slovenia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Poliomyelitis; Multiple Sclerosis; Peripheral Nerve Disease; Cerebral Palsy; Peripheral Nerve Injury Lower Limb

Treatments: Device: Ankle-foot orthosis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04080687

URIS201902

Details and patient eligibility

About

The patients at our Prosthetics and Orthotics Outpatient Clinic who have had an ankle-foot orthosis for at least one year will fill in the Activities-Specific Balance Confidence Scale (ABC Scale) for wearing the orthosis and for not wearing the orthosis. They will also answer a mini survey about falls in order to determine whether they have fallen within the last 6 months.

Full description

The effect of the orthosis will be estimated as the difference between the two ABC Scale scores. The ABC Scale score and individual items will be compared between the fallers and the non-fallers.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients at our Prosthetics and Orthotics Outpatient Clinic having an ankle-foot orthosis for at least 1 year

Exclusion criteria

• insufficient cognitive ability to fill in the ABC Scale

Trial design

150 participants in 2 patient groups

Fallers

Description:

The patients who had fallen during the 6 months prior to the study onset

Treatment:

Device: Ankle-foot orthosis

Non-fallers

Description:

The patients who had not fallen during the 6 months prior to the study onset

Treatment:

Device: Ankle-foot orthosis