The Effect of Backward Walking Treadmill Training on Balance in Patient With Chronic Stroke

Kaohsiung Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Other: backward walking treadmill training; Other: conventional physical therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02619110

KMUH-IRB-20130288

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research was to discuss the effect of backward walking treadmill training on balance ability, speed of walking and cardiopulmonary fitness in patients with chronic stroke.

Full description

Walking training is a good method and strategy to improve postural stability, balance, gait symmetry, and increase walking ability. Generally, there are many walking training theories and methods for patients with chronic stroke and treadmill walking training is applied in recent years. Previous studies showed that patients with stroke improve the walking abilities and speed after the walking treadmill training. However, most studies have demonstrated that forward walking treadmill training improved balance and walking ability in patients with stroke, but fewer studies have investigated the effects on backward walking treadmill training. However, no studies to date have investigated the effects of backward walking treadmill training for patients with chronic stroke.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• This experiment recruited subjects with chronic stroke more than six months, whose level of Brunnstrom stage was beyond IV and who were able to walk more than eleven meters with or without assistive devices

Exclusion Criteria:

Trial design

30 participants in 2 patient groups

backward walking treadmill training

Other group

Description:

The intervention group not only received four weeks of conventional physical therapy but also accepted additional four weeks of backward walking treadmill training at the same time

Treatment:

Other: conventional physical therapy

Other: backward walking treadmill training

conventional physical therapy

Other group

Description:

The conventional physical therapy training focused on strengthening, postural control, functional mobility and forward gait training program but excluded backward walking training

Treatment:

Other: conventional physical therapy