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Postural Responses to External Perturbation in Post-Stroke

NCT01912794 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 24

Last updated 2013-08-01

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Summary

To maintain stable body balance in daily activities, the ability to respond to external perturbations is an essential factor. Such capacity is limited in pathological conditions, such as in stroke, in which postural control is impaired due to lesions to the central nervous system. Impairment to postural control increases body sway during upright posture and leads to augmented frequency of falls. In this sense, the identification of mechanisms involved in body balance disorders after stroke is particularly important in situations of postural perturbation. The purpose of this project is to evaluate reactive postural responses to unpredictable external perturbations, analyzing postural dysfunctions caused by lesion to different brain areas as a result of stroke, and test principles of dynamic body balance rehabilitation.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Sensory Intervention

1. full sensory information, whose participants will practice balancing tasks without constraint sensory body; 2. sensory constraint, whose participants will practice the same balance tasks with constraint body of visual and tactile information from the soles of the feet; 3. control, whose participants will exercise activities involving cognitive and upper limbs.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Luis A Teixeira, PhD

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-08-31
Primary Completion
2014-02-28
Completion
2014-10-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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