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Does Intensive Task Specific Training Improve Balance After Acute Stroke?

NCT00184431 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 62

Last updated 2011-10-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of this study is to investigate whether additional task specific physiotherapy treatment and a self administrated home training program results in better balance compared to traditional follow up care.

Conditions

  • Cerebrovascular Accident

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Physical therapy technique and exercises

The experimental group receives task specific physical therapy three times a week for the first four weeks after discharge from hospital and one session pr week for the next eight weeks in addition to ordinary physical therapy The active comparator group receives only ordinary physical therapy during this period.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • St. Olavs Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Norwegian Fund for Postgraduate Training in Physiotherapy

    collaborator OTHER

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bent Indredavik, assoc-prof · Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian university of Science and Technology

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-04-30
Primary Completion
2008-04-30
Completion
2008-04-30

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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