Treadmill Therapy and Brain Injuries

Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Moderate to Severe Functional Impairments; Hemiplegia; Cerebral Stroke

Treatments: Other: Treadmill therapy and conventional walking therapy.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01000168

20624506 (SunHF)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Introduction.

• There is a demand for evidence whether treadmill therapy is more efficient than traditional walking training as an intervention for patients with hemiplegia after cerebral stroke.

Design.

• A randomized controlled trial.

Material.

• Stroke patients with moderate to severe functional deficits referred to inpatient medical rehabilitation.

Method.

• Comparing a treatment group receiving treadmill training with body weight support with a treatment group receiving conventional walking training.

Study aim:

• Investigate whether treadmill therapy is more effective than traditional functional training in restoring walking and transfer in patients with moderate to severe ambulatory deficits after stroke.

Full description

See "Brief Summary".

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Cerebral stoke
• Hemiplegia
• Primary rehabilitation
• Medical stable
• Wheelchair user
• Dependent of assistance for walking
• Dependent of maximum one person for transfer
• No physical impairments that could prevent walking ability from being restored
• Able to participate in the training modalities

Exclusion criteria

• Medical unstable
• Orthopaedic or other impairments preventing relearning walking
• Cognitive impairments that prevents understanding the study information
• Cognitive or psychological impairments that prevents study collaboration

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Treadmill therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Patients assigned to the "Treadmill therapy group" received daily 30 minutes specific walking training on "treadmill with body weight support" alternatively overground, and 30 minutes functional training, treated by a physiotherapist.

Treatment:

Other: Treadmill therapy and conventional walking therapy.

Conventional walking therapy

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients assigned to the comparative conventional walking therapy group received daily 30 minutes specific traditional walking training overground and 30 minutes functional training, treated by a physiotherapist.

Treatment:

Other: Treadmill therapy and conventional walking therapy.