Effect of Robot-assisted Gait Training on Brain Reorganization in Hemiplegic Patients

Veterans Health Service Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Device: Walkbot

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02569190

2015-05-008-002

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of robotic gait therapy for brain reorganization in hemiplegia patients.

Full description

This study designed an interventional pre-post compared clinical study. The subjects received conventional physical therapy with Walkbot training (3 sessions per week for 7 weeks, 20 session). Before and after intervention all subjects evaluated using diffusion tensor imaging and clinical outcome measurements.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• First stroke attack
• Within 3 months after stroke onset
• Supratentorial stroke
• Unilateral stroke

Exclusion criteria

• Bilateral stroke
• infratentorial stroke
• Cognitive disabilities or serious psychiatric illness.
• Difficulty in walking due to orthopedic problems.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 1 patient group

Walkbot

Experimental group

Description:

Receive conventional physical therapy (session I for 30 min/day) with Walkbot training 3 days a week for 8 weeks, 20 session in all.

Treatment:

Device: Walkbot