Effect of Segmental Muscle Vibration on Upper Extremity Functional Ability Post Stroke

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Other: physical therapy exercises; Device: segmental vibration device

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03419793

212/17

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background and objective: Upper extremity functional impairments are common consequences post stroke. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of Segmental muscle vibration (SMV) application along with supervised physical therapy (SPT) on improving activities of daily living (ADL) and motor recovery on the hemiparetic upper extremity in patients with stroke.

Methods: A sample of 37 patients post stroke (29 males) was randomly assigned to either supervised physical therapy (SPT) control group (n=18) or supervised physical therapy and segmental muscle vibration (SPT-SMV) experimental group (n=19). All patients received 3 sessions per week of SPT for 8 weeks. The SPT-SMV experimental group received SMV at the end of each SPT session. Outcome measures used were Barthel Index (BI), Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS), Manual Muscle Testing (MMT), and goniometry for Range of Motion (ROM) assessment.

Enrollment: 37 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• confirmed diagnosis of stroke

Exclusion criteria

• if they had any serious orthopedic injury/disease, cardiopulmonary problems or suffered from a neurological disease (other than stroke).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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37 participants in 2 patient groups

physical therapy intervention and segmental muscle vibration

Experimental group

Description:

physiotherapy intervention and segmental muscle vibration device

Treatment:

Device: segmental vibration device

Other: physical therapy exercises

physical therapy intervention

Sham Comparator group

Description:

physical therapy intervention alone

Treatment:

Other: physical therapy exercises