Effect of Simultaneous Application of HD-tDCS and Robot-assisted Gait Training on Gait Function in Stroke Patients

Yun-Hee Kim

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Device: Brain stimulation; Device: Treadmill gait training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT04985864

2021-06-131

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of simultaneous application of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with robotic gait training in stroke patients with gait impairment.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 79 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age: 19 - 79 years
• More than 3 months post stroke
• Functional ambulation classification (FAC) (1~4)

Exclusion criteria

• History of serious neurological disease other than stroke
• Difficult to understand experimental tasks because of extremely severe cognitive impairment (Korean-Mini-Mental State Examination, K-MMSE≤10)
• History of psychiatric disease
• Contraindicated to tDCS

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

Robot gait training with brain stimulation

Experimental group

Description:

Lokomat robot training and anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on the leg motor areas

Treatment:

Device: Brain stimulation

Device: Treadmill gait training

Gait training with sham brain stimulation

Active Comparator group

Description:

Treadmill gait training and anodal sham transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on the leg motor areas

Treatment:

Device: Treadmill gait training