Reliability of Rehabilitative Ultrasound for the Quadriceps Muscle and Sarcopenia in Poststroke Patients

Gaziosmanpasa Research and Education Hospital

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Stroke, Complication

Quadriceps Muscle Atrophy

Ultrasonography

Hand Strength

Hemiplegia

Sarcopenia

Treatments

Diagnostic Test: Rehabilitative Ultrasound

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04042818

GaziosmanpasaTREH7

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is search the interrater and intrarater reliability of the quadriceps muscle using rehabilitative ultrasound imaging and search for an association between sarcopenia and quadriceps muscle in poststroke patients.

Full description

Poststroke patients often suffer from muscle atrophy in quadriceps muscle. Quadriceps muscle is essential for independent standing or ambulation after stroke. Quadriceps muscle consists of four different muscles: rectus femoris, vastus intermedius, vastus lateralis and medialis. The present study search for reliability for rectus femoris and vastus intermedius muscle thickness and cross-sectional area using rehabilitative ultrasound imagining. Longitudinal and transverse ultrasound imagining of the muscle thickness will be performed on both rectus femoris and vastus intermedius muscles for both extremities. The procedures will be repeated by two experts at two separate times (7-10 days). For sarcopenia measurement grip strength and DEXA measurements of the patients will be calculated. Totally 68 patients will be included in the study.

Enrollment

68 estimated patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria