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The Effect of Robot-Assisted Gait Training With or Without Plantar Pressure Summary Feedback: Impact on Gait Symmetry and Balance in Hemiplegic Patients

NCT07336667 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 26

Last updated 2026-04-24

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Summary

The goal of this randomized, single-blind clinical trial is to learn whether a 4-week Lokomat-based gait training program with plantar pressure feedback can improve gait symmetry and balance in adult patients with chronic hemiplegic stroke. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does Lokomat training with plantar pressure feedback improve spatiotemporal gait symmetry, as measured with the GAITRite system, more than Lokomat training without plantar pressure feedback? Does this intervention lead to greater improvements in balance and walking speed, assessed by the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) and the 10-Meter Walk Test (10MWT), compared with conventional Lokomat training? Researchers will compare a group receiving Lokomat training with both real-time feedback and additional summary plantar pressure feedback to a group receiving Lokomat training with real-time feedback only, to see if adding plantar pressure feedback results in superior gains in gait symmetry, balance, and walking ability.

Participants will be adult inpatients with chronic hemiplegic stroke. They will be randomly assigned to one of the two training groups and will receive Lokomat-based gait training three times per week for 30 minutes per session over four weeks. Before and after the intervention period, participants will undergo gait analysis using the GAITRite walkway and clinical assessments including the BBS and 10MWT.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Lokomat robot assisted gait training

Lokomat robot assisted gait training for 30 minutes per session, 3 times per week, for 4 weeks. Real-time(biofeedback graph) visual and auditory feedback provided by the Lokomat system is used during gait training in both groups.

OTHER

Plantar pressure summary feedback

Experimental group, plantar pressure data are collected during each Lokomat session using instrumented insoles. After each session, session by session plantar pressure summary feed back and gait symmetry is provided to the participant to promote more symmetrical gait. The control group does not receive this plantar summary feedback.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Yeonji Choi

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • seongwon Lee, PhD, PT · Sahmyook University, Department of Physical Therapy

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-02-05
Primary Completion
2026-04-29
Completion
2026-04-29

Countries

  • South Korea

Study Locations

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