The ATLET Study: Can Subjects With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury Learn to Walk?

Summary

The ATLET study will assess the effect of manual or robotic body-weight supported locomotor training of patients with stable motor incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) on gait and overall ADL function as well as on estimated health care costs.

Conditions

• Spinal Cord Injury

Interventions

OTHER

Locomotor training with robot

60 days locomotor training during 6 months period in out-patient setting. Minimum 60 min training up to 3 times per week. Control group receives conventional training/treatment.

OTHER

Locomotor training with manual assistance

60 days training during 6 months period on in-patient setting. Training 2 times per day total 120 minutes. Control group receives conventional training/treatment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Norwegian School of Sport Sciences

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Tromso

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Oslo

  collaborator OTHER

• Norwegian Foundation for Health and Rehabilitation

  collaborator OTHER

• Norwegian Department of Health and Social Affairs

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Loma Linda University

  collaborator OTHER

• North Norway Rehabilitation Center

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Synnove F Knutsen, MD PhD · North Norway Rehabilitation Center

• Raymond Knutsen, MD MPH · ATLET Steering group

• Nils Hjeltnes, MD PhD · Sunnaas Hospital

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

70 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2008-08-31

Primary Completion

2018-12-31

Completion

2019-01-31

Countries

• Norway

Study Locations