Visual Dependence and Multisensory Balance Rehabilitation After Stroke

Taipei Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gait, Unsteady; Balance; Distorted; Stroke

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04702815

N201912127

Details and patient eligibility

About

This cross-sectional study aims to investigate the prevalence of post-stroke visual dependence, and the effects of visual dependence on balance and gait. It also determines whether visual dependence could differentiate stroke patients with a history of falls from without.

Full description

Stroke participants will be recruited to measure the level of visual dependence, muscle strength, neurological recovery, balance ability, vertigo symptom, gait pattern and activities of daily living. This will calculate the prevalence of post-stroke visual dependence, and investigate the negative impact of visual dependence on balance and walking functions. This also determines whether the value of visual dependence could differentiate stroke patients with a history of falls from without a history of falls.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 1. first stroke with 20-80 years of age
• 2. the time since onset is more than 6 months
• 3. can walk independently at least 10 meters without any walking devices and orthosis
• 4. normal cognitive function with scoring more than 24 on the Mini Mental State Examination scale
• 5. can understand and follow commands
• 6. can give informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• 1. other neurological disorders which could affect balance assessment
• 2. cerebellar stroke
• 3. diagnosis with central or peripheral vestibular diseases.