FIRST-Oslo Long-term Follow-up

University of Oslo (UIO)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Other: High Intensity Gait Training

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04870619

216346

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to describe the functional level of the patients who received high intensity gait training during inpatient stroke rehabilitation at discharge, three, six and twelve months after stroke. These data will determine if the observed gains from the high-intensity gait training are retained after discharge from inpatient rehabilitation.

Full description

The study is a cohort-study that will have a prospective observational design. This design allows us to follow patients who presently have had a stroke and received high intensity stepping training over time. At this time little is known about the patient's functional trajectory the first 12 months after receiving high intensity stepping treatment as no study has examined long-term effects of high-intensity stepping training delivered in inpatient rehabilitation for stroke in Norway nor internationally.

Enrollment: 69 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults (>18 years old) who are receiving inpatient rehabilitation for stroke
• < six months post-stroke
• have the goal to improve walking function
• provide written consent will participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• inability to consent
• use of bracing or instrumentation (e.g. ventilator) that limits walking
• independence in walking outdoors and on stairs (Functional Ambulation Category (FAC) at admission = 5)
• uncontrolled cardiopulmonary, metabolic, infectious or psychiatric disorders