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Robot Walking Rehabilitation in Stroke Patients

NCT01678547 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 28

Last updated 2024-04-10

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Summary

Stroke are the main causes of motor disability among adults and are expected to impose an increasing social and economic burden for our Country. The impact of stroke on patients is enormous, with negative ramifications on the persons participation in social, vocational, and recreational activities. It is the primary cause of long-term disability in these countries. At the present stage, it is well known that control of balance during upright standing depends upon the central integration of afferent information from vestibular, somatosensory (proprioceptive, tactile), and visual systems, which constitute a multilink neural network for the control of neck, hip, and ankle joints. More recently, it has been studied at the level of cerebral cortex; vestibular inputs would reach face/neck representation of primary somatosensory cortex and would be then integrated with visual and somatosensory inputs in intraparietal, posterior end of the insula and medial superior temporal cortices. Remarkably, balance impairment and the associated risk of falling represent one of the most prominent and potentially disabling features in stroke subjects. The specific aims of this project are: to verify whether the robotics lower limb treatment with body weight support is more effective than the treadmill treatment in the reduction of motor impairment in Stroke patients, and to improve the quality of the gait and the endurance and to analyze possible improvements in terms of physiological biomechanical gait through analysis of spatio-temporal parameters.

Conditions

  • Stroke
  • Gait Disorders, Neurologic

Interventions

DEVICE

Robot-assisted walking

The practice will included an add-on robot-assisted walking therapy at variable speeds for 40 min with a partial body weight support (BWS). All participants will start with 30-40% BWS and an initial treadmill speed of 1.5 km/h speed will be increased to a range of 2.2 to 2.5 km/h and the BWS % will be decreased.

DEVICE

Treadmill Training

The practice will included an add-on treadmill walking therapy at variable speeds for 40 min with a partial body weight support (BWS). All participants will start with 30-40% BWS and an initial comfortable treadmill speed and the speed will be increased to a range of 1,0 to 2.5 km/h and the BWS % will be decreased.

OTHER

Ground treatment

The practice will included ground walking therapy s for 40 min with therapist support.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • IRCCS San Raffaele Roma

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michela Goffredo, BME · IRCCS San Raffaele Rome Italy

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-09-30
Primary Completion
2014-08-31
Completion
2015-09-30

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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