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Importance of Early Rehabilitation in Stroke Patients

NCT03965910 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 28

Last updated 2019-05-29

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Summary

Stroke is one of the leading health problems in the community and it is the most common life-threatening neurological disease impairing the quality of life. Early rehabilitation of stroke is very important. The purpose of our study was to evaluate, through clinical examination, whether there was any difference between patients who underwent early rehabilitation and those who underwent late rehabilitation in terms of improvements in motor and functional impairment after rehabilitation, and also to evaluate this difference objectively by analyzing white-matter pathways (corticospinal tracts) using DTI.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Demonstration the Importance of Early Rehabilitation in Stroke Patients Based on Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data

Twenty-eight stroke patients aged 36-72 years admitted to the our Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Outpatient Clinics were included in this prospective study. After the approval of the ethics committee, written informed consent was obtained from the patients after they were informed about the content and purpose of the study, the schedule of rehabilitation to be administered, and the features of cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to be performed. Patients with confirmed diagnosis of stroke by computed tomography and/or MRI techniques were randomized into two groups according to the onset of post-stroke rehabilitation. The patients were randomized according to the duration of their admission to our clinic for rehabilitation. Group 1 consisted of patients admitted to our clinic within 1-4 weeks after stroke; Group 2 consisted of patients admitted within 5-8 weeks after stroke. Late initiation of rehabilitation in Group 2 patients is not a condition related to our clinic.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bezmialem Vakif University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-11-30
Primary Completion
2016-12-31
Completion
2017-11-30

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