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Post-Stroke Visual Dependence and Multisensory Balance Rehabilitation

NCT04750668 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2021-02-11

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Summary

Stroke patients have higher levels of visual dependence, which affects orientation, balance and gait. Visual adaption or habituation training aiming to decrease visual sensitivity and tolerance, is commonly used to decrease the levels of visual dependence. However, the visual adaption training often evokes unbearable vertigo, resulting in lower compliance to training program. In addition, stroke patients who have higher visual dependence may not have the symptom of dizziness. Therefore, it is unclear whether visual adaption training has similar effects on stroke patients. Visual dependence is considered as a sensory reweighting deficit and therefore visual dependence could be improved through multisensory balance training which comprises of visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive manipulation. This study will investigate the effects of early multisensory balance training on visual dependence, balance and gait in subacute stroke patients.

Conditions

  • Sensory Integration Dysfunction
  • Stroke

Interventions

OTHER

Multisensory Balance Training

Multisensory Balance training includes 30 minutes per day, 5 days a week for 4 weeks, using visual, proprioceptive, and vestibular manipulations. The exercises involved movements of the eye, head, and body to stimulate the vestibular system, postural control exercises in different positions (feet together, tandem stance, and one leg stance), use of a soft surface to reduce the proprioceptive inputs, and exercises with closed eyes to deprive them of visual cues.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Pei-Jung Liang, MSc · Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-03-01
Primary Completion
2022-02-28
Completion
2022-02-28

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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