Influences of Cane Use on Voluntary Forward Stepping Movement and Associated Attentional Demands in Hemiplegic Patients

National Taiwan University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Stroke

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00172146

9361700329

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of cane use on the movement, kinetics, and associated attentional demands of performing a voluntary forward stepping movement in patients with stroke and age-matched healthy adults.

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Healthy subjects

• Age ang Sex are correspond with the stroke subjects(between 30 and 75 years old)
• being willing to sign an informed consent approved by the Human Subjects Committee of the National Taiwan University Hospital

Stroke subjects

• between 30 and 75 years old
• stroke confirmed by ICD-10-CM (including I60, I61, I62, I63, I67, and I63.9)
• first stroke with single side hemiplegia and received acute treatment at NTUH
• being willing to sign an informed consent approved by the Human Subjects Committee of the National Taiwan University Hospital
• able to stand independently for 10 minutes and to forward step without ankle-foot orthosis
• Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score at least 24

Excursion criteria:

Healthy subjects

• having other neurological diseases, or moderate to severe neuromuscular or musculoskeletal disorders, or disorders from systematic diseases those would influence the belance or motor ability

Stroke subjects

• having unstable vital sign, unconsciousness, or obvious cognitive, perception, and language impairment, and couldn't communicate with the experimenters
• having other neurological diseases, or moderate to severe neuromuscular or musculoskeletal or cardiovascular disorders, or disorders from systematic diseases those will influence standing ability other than stroke
• having hemi-neglect or hemi-anopia