Effects of Ground Level Gait Training With Body Weight Support (BWS) and Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)

Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke; Hemiparesis

Treatments: Device: gait training on ground level using BWS; Device: gait training on ground level using BWS associated to FES

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01106755

UFSCar-240781

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of gait training on ground level, combining BWS and FES in people following chronic stroke.

Full description

The body weight support system (BWS) associated to a treadmill as well as to a functional electrical stimulation (FES) of the common peroneal nerve, has been proposed as a strategy for gait training in people following stroke. Moreover, it has also considered that the ground level is the most common locomotion surface, and that there is little information about the effects of gait training, on this kind of surface, in people with hemiparesis.

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Elapsed time since stroke longer than 6 months
• Spasticity classified under level 3 according to the Modified Ashworth Scale
• The ability to walk classified at levels 2, 3 or 4 according to the Functional Ambulation Category

Exclusion criteria

• Heart failure, angina pectoris, arrhythmias and other cardiovascular diseases
• Severe lung disease
• Orthopedic disorders
• Cognitive deficits

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12 participants in 1 patient group

hemiparetic gait

Experimental group

Description:

gait training on ground level

Treatment:

Device: gait training on ground level using BWS

Device: gait training on ground level using BWS associated to FES