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Improving Gait in Patients With Spinal Cord Injuries

NCT00060983 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 36

Last updated 2005-06-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study is part of a larger clinical trial that examines the potential of a 12-week treadmill-training program to improve walking in patients with spinal cord injuries (SCIs). Patients in the trial are at least 1 year past their injury. This substudy tests a combination of two strategies to enhance the treadmill training program: electrically stimulating a muscle withdrawal reflex and providing body weight support by partially suspending patients as they walk on the treadmill.

Conditions

  • Spinal Cord Injuries

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Body weight supported locomotor training

PROCEDURE

Functional electrical stimulation

Sponsors & Collaborators

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

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Edelle Carmen Field, Ph.D., P.T. · University of Miami

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1998-05-31
Completion
2002-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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