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The Effect of FES and Therapeutic Exercise on SCI Patients Skeletal Muscles, Sitting Balance, Posture and Quality of Life

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Tartu University Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Spinal Cord Injuries

Treatments

Other: FES+TE
Other: REF-TE
Other: TE
Other: REF-FES+TE

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03517787
Spinaal

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim of the current study is to evaluate the effect functional electrical stimulation and therapeutic exercise on traumatic spinal cord injured participants'skeletal muscle characteristics, sitting balance, lung function and quality of life.

Enrollment

5 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 55 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Chronic spinal cord injury (12 months post injury) Injury in cervical region resulting in tetraparesis Able to sit on a custom made chair without support Does not have any contraindications for functional electrical stimulation

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Crossover Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

5 participants in 4 patient groups

FES+TE
Experimental group
Description:
Participants receiving Functional electrical stimulation (FES) combined with therapeutic exercise (TE)
Treatment:
Other: FES+TE
TE
Active Comparator group
Description:
Participants receiving only therapeutic exercise
Treatment:
Other: TE
REF-FES+TE
Other group
Description:
Healthy adults (reference group REF) that participate only in 1 session and receive FES and therapeutic exercise
Treatment:
Other: REF-FES+TE
REF-TE
Other group
Description:
Healthy adults that participate only in 1 session and receive only therapeutic exercise
Treatment:
Other: REF-TE

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Doris Vahtrik, PhD; Margot Bergmann, MSc

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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