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The Effect of a Walking Assist Robot on Gait Function and Brain Activity in Stroke Patients and Elderly Adults

NCT03048968 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2019-04-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the new wearable hip assist robot, gait enhancing and motivating system (GEMS) developed by Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd., Korea) on gait, sit-to-stand movement and cortical activation in elderly adults and stroke patients.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Gait, sit-to-stand movement, stair climbing and treadmill gait

Spatio temporal characteristics, muscle activation and foot pressure distribution are measured by motion capture system, surface electromyography (sEMG) and F-Scan Mobile system during 10m walking test. Muscle activation and foot pressure distribution are measured by surface electromyography (sEMG) and F-Scan Mobile system during five times sit-to-stand test.Muscle activation and foot pressure distribution are measured by surface electromyography (sEMG) and F-Scan Mobile system during stair climbing. Cortical activation is measured by functional Near-Infrared-Spectroscopy (fNIRS) (NIRScout, NIRx, Germany) during treadmill gait.

PROCEDURE

Sit-to-stand movement and treadmill gait

Muscle activation and foot pressure distribution are measured by surface electromyography (sEMG) and F-Scan Mobile system during five times sit-to-stand test. Cortical activation is measured by functional Near-Infrared-Spectroscopy (fNIRS) (NIRScout, NIRx, Germany) during treadmill gait.

DEVICE

gait enhancing mechatronic system (GEMS)

Gait, sit-to-stand movement, stair climbing and treadmill gait with GEMS and without GEMS in elderly adults. Sit-to-stand movement and treadmill gait with GEMS and without GEMS in stroke patients.

DEVICE

treadmill

Cortical activation is measured by functional Near-Infrared-Spectroscopy (fNIRS) (NIRScout, NIRx, Germany) during treadmill gait.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Samsung Electronics

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Samsung Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yun-Hee Kim · Samsung Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
84 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-03-01
Primary Completion
2017-09-30
Completion
2017-10-23

Countries

  • South Korea

Study Locations

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