Robot Assisted Gait Training in Patients With Infratentorial Stroke

National Rehabilitation Center, Seoul, Korea

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Other: Robot, then conventional training; Other: Conventional, then robot training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02680691

NRC-2015-01-002

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Effect of Robot Assisted Gait Training in Patients With Infratentorial Stroke

Full description

The hypothesis is to determine the robotic gait training would be better than conventional therapy regarding the postural balance.

Enrollment: 19 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with infratentorial stroke
• Cognitively intact enough to understand and follow the instructions from the investigator

Exclusion criteria

• chronic neurological pathology
• orthopedic injuries
• femur lengths of less than 34cm
• severely limited range of lower extremity joint motion
• medical instability

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

---

19 participants in 2 patient groups

Robot, then conventional training

Experimental group

Description:

Robot assisted gait training 4 weeks after conventional gait training

Treatment:

Other: Robot, then conventional training

Conventional, then robot training

Active Comparator group

Description:

Conventional gait training 4 weeks after robot assisted gait training

Treatment:

Other: Conventional, then robot training