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Mental Practice Impact on Gait and Cortical Organization in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)

NCT01302522 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2011-02-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a disabling condition that impairs fundamental abilities, such as ambulation, respiration, and toileting. Compromised ambulation is a common, devastating impairment following SCI. Yet, despite the fundamental desire to walk, no conventional rehabilitation regimen reliably improves ambulation after SCI, and many SCI patients do not have reliable transportation access, decreasing community integration and access to needed services, including rehabilitation. Little is also known about the subtle neural events that may predict motor recovery in incomplete SCI patients. This study will test a novel, safe, easy to implement technique that has shown promise in improving gait in incomplete SCI patients. The investigators expect that this study will confirm the efficacy of this technique, by showing that it increases the speed and efficiency of walking. This outcome is expected to produce a therapy that improves outcomes and health, and reduces care costs, for community dwelling patients with incomplete SCI.

Conditions

  • Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mental practice

All patients in the study will be administered a regimen of locomotor therapy (rehabilitative therapy working on walking). Half of the patients will also be administered a regimen in which they mentally rehearse the exercises that they have just physically performed.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Cincinnati

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-09-30
Primary Completion
2010-07-31
Completion
2010-12-31

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