Step Test and Six Minute Walk Test in Stroke

Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Other: Step Test and Six Minute Walk.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01436630

TDS-2809

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the viability of using the Step Test (ST) in stroke patients, and to compare the functional performance of the physiologic variables in stroke patients during ST and Six Minute Walk Test (6MWT).

Full description

To accomplish the study it was assessed a group of 12 post-stroke patients who were admitted in the Rehabilitation Clinic inside the University. As inclusion criteria it was established to be able to walk alone without supervision and with no aids.

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To be able to walk alone without supervision and with no aids.

Exclusion criteria

• There were no.

Trial design

12 participants in 1 patient group

Stroke

Description:

To accomplish the study it was assessed a group of 12 post-stroke patients who were admitted in the Rehabilitation Clinic inside the University. As inclusion criteria it was established to be able to walk alone without supervision and with no aids. All the patients signed an informed consent before performing the tests. To characterize the sample it were used the Fugl-Meyer scale, Orpington test, Mini Exam of the Mental State and some other data regarding the age, gender, type of the lesion and side of the lesion.

Treatment:

Other: Step Test and Six Minute Walk.