Effects of Gait Training With Assistance of a Robot-Driven Gait Orthosis in Hemiparetic Patients After Stroke

Samsung Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Procedure: Robot-assisted gait training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00530543

2007-01-039

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of robot-assisted gait training on active walking in the patients with stroke.

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 1st-ever-stroke
• hemiplegic patient after stroke
• who can stand independently, but cannot walk more than 10 meters independently
• whose muscle powers of hip and knee are more than poor on manual muscle test

Exclusion criteria

• previous gait difficulty before stroke onset
• arthralgia on lower extremity
• uncontrolled hypertension or hypotension
• severe medical illness