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Effects of Unilateral Step Training on Gait and Balance in Stroke Patients

NCT05449301 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 63

Last updated 2025-12-31

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Summary

According to the definition proposed by the World Health Organization, "stroke is rapidly developing clinical signs of focal (or global) disturbance of cerebral function, with symptoms lasting 24 hours or longer, or leading to death, with no apparent cause other than of vascular origin". Difficulty in walking is present in approximately 80% of stroke survivors. 25% of stroke survivors even after getting rehabilitation have residual gait impairments requiring full assistance after hospital discharge resulting in difficulties in performing basic activities of daily life.

Approaches to gait rehabilitation are different based on different models of motor physiology and disease recovery, but most of the approaches are targeting motor impairments during straight walking only as opposed to adaptive walking ability . In order to decrease health care burden effective rehabilitation and prevention is necessary. Multidisciplinary care dedicated for stroke leads to higher independence rates.

Conventional gait training regimes including linear parallel bar based gait training and treadmill based gait training protocols do not usually target the angular or rotational component of locomotion.

Current study will focus on Unilateral Step Training using a traditional treadmill. This would provide a targeted gait training tool to reduce the risk of fall, improve gait and turning ability and functional activity eventually resulting in greater community participation and involvement in occupational activities. Such an approach could be effective in providing an early targeted and intense training environment similar to task-specific training in contrast to conventional method.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation

The participants will receive RAS on regular treadmill for balance and gait improvement. one session per day, 3 session per week for consecutively 12 weeks.

OTHER

Treadmill Training

participants will be trained conventionally (bipedal) on regular treadmill. one session per day, 3 session per week for consecutively 12 weeks.

OTHER

Unilateral Step Training

Patients will be trained on regular treadmill for both paretic and non paretic lower extremity. Single session per day, 3 session per week for consecutively 12 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Riphah International University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Arshad N Malik, PhD · Riphah International University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-01-01
Primary Completion
2024-06-30
Completion
2024-06-30

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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