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Treadmill Training for Spinal Cord Injury

NCT00006429 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2016-09-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This is a trial to test whether treadmill training can be used to improve the "walking" of patients with partial spinal cord injury. While on the treadmill, patients will be partially supported through the use of a specially designed harness attached to an overhead lift (also called Body Weight Supported Treadmill Training, BWSTT). Patients who enroll in this study will be randomly assigned to either the experimental group, which receives 12 weeks of this specialized treadmill training with regular physical therapy, or to the control group, which receives 12 weeks regular physical therapy. The ability of the patients to "walk" will be measured before and after treatment as well as 6 and 12 months later, using standard tests that examine mobility independence and speed of ambulation. The trial takes place across five sites in the US and Canada. Patients eligible for this trial will have had a traumatic spinal cord injury within 8 weeks of trial entry.

Conditions

  • Spinal Cord Injury

Interventions

PROCEDURE

body weight-supported treadmill training

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Bruce H. Dobkin, MD · University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1999-03-31
Primary Completion
2004-02-29
Completion
2004-02-29

Countries

  • United States
  • Canada

Study Locations

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