Yoga Exercise for Improving Balance in Patients With Subacute &Ｃhronic Stroke

National Taiwan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke; Depression

Treatments: Behavioral: Yoga

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01806922

201210006RIB

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hypothesis: This study investigated the hypothesis that subacute and chronic stroke patients who received a combination of yoga and traditional physiotherapy were getting more improvement in standing balance than traditional physiotherapy. And we also hypothesis yoga can improve post-stroke depression symtom.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. The time of stroke onset is more than 91 days.
2. Able to stand for more than 1 minutes.
3. Between the ages of 30 and 80.

Exclusion criteria

1. Now receive others palliative therapy.
2. Significant psychotic disease.
3. Obvious language disorder.
4. Medical contraindication(clincans evaluate cannot included).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Yoga training, Tradiational physiotherapy

Experimental group

Description:

Experimental Group(20 people) receive tradiational physiotherapy(4 times in a week, every time 1 hour), and 8-weeks yoga training(2 time in a week, every time 1 hour)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Yoga

Tradiational physiotherapy

No Intervention group

Description:

Control Group(20 people)only receive tradiational rehabiliation( 4 times in a week, every time 1 hour ) for 8 weeks.