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The Use of Brace to Retrain Hemiparetic Gait

NCT02082938 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12

Last updated 2014-03-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to verify if the incorporation of a new brace, which assists in gait rehabilitation, can contribute to the rehabilitation process for stroke patients.

Conditions

  • Stroke Nos Without Residual Deficits

Interventions

DEVICE

Bracing

Twice a week, for a period of 5 weeks, before the sessions in the physiotherapy clinic the patients participating in the study were asked to walk at a self-selected speed on flat ground along a corridor 50 meters long, with the brace being used for fifteen minutes of gait retraining of the affected side.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Federal University of Health Science of Porto Alegre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Éder K Cardoso, Master · Federal University of Health Science of Porto Alegre

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-03-31
Primary Completion
2012-04-30
Completion
2014-01-31

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