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Stroke and Assessment of Muscle Tone

NCT03814460 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 65

Last updated 2019-09-23

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Summary

Spasticity is defined as a state of increased muscle tone, which evokes an increased resistance to a passive and fast stretching of the muscle. Indeed, the degree of spasticity depends, among other things, on the stretching velocity performed to the muscle. However, most of the tools used in the clinical setting to assess spasticity do not take into account the relationship between increased muscle tone and speed of stretching. Instead of that, muscle tone is usually assessed in a relaxed position of the muscle.

Likewise, to date, despite the functional disabilities related to the presence of chronic pain after a stroke, no previous study has correlated muscle tone and pressure pain sensitivity within this population

Conditions

  • Stroke
  • Muscle Tone Abnormalities
  • Pain
  • Muscle Spasticity

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Assessment of Tone, Pain and Thickness

Evaluation of Muscle state of tension, self-reported response to mechanical pressure pain and muscle thickness. The evaluation process of muscle tone and pressure pain sensitivity will be carried out following a topographical mapping covering myotendinous and muscle belly sites in the biceps brachii and the gastrocnemius muscles

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hospitales Universitarios Virgen del Rocío

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Seville

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Isabel Garcia Bernal, PT · Physiotherapy Department, University of Sevilla, Spain

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-02-02
Primary Completion
2019-08-25
Completion
2019-08-25

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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