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Balance Recovery and Training on Fall Prevention in Stroke

NCT00166907 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2005-09-14

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Summary

The specific aims of this research are delineated as the following: Aim 1: To investigate the neuromuscular and biomechanical mechanisms of the emerging processes of proactive and reactive balance control during sitting and standing in patients with stroke at different stages of the recovery course. Aim 2: To determine the relationships between brain lesion sites and the recovery patterns of reactive and proactive balance control mechanisms in patients with stroke. Aim 3: To determine the relationships between the impairments in reactive and proactive balance control mechanisms and functional outcome as well as fall incidence in patients following stroke. Aim 4: To investigate the efficacy of different training regimens in improving reactive and proactive balance control strategies and in preventing falls in stroke patients with different brain lesion sites. Principally, three hypotheses are to be tested: Hypothesis 1:The emerging processes and recovery patternes of proactive and reactive balance control may be different among stroke patients with different brain lesion locations. Hypothesis 2:There are positive correlations between the level of impairments in reactive and proactive balance control mechanisms and functional outcome as well as fall incidence in patients following stroke. Hypothesis 3:Training regimens that could best facilitate the emergence or improvement in reactive and proactive balance control strategies are different.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Balance and Exercise

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Taiwan University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Pei-Fang Tang, PhD · National Taiwan Unversity Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
ECT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2002-01-31
Completion
2007-12-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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