Status:
UNKNOWN
Influences of Cane Use on Voluntary Forward Stepping Movement and Associated Attentional Demands in Hemiplegic Patients
Lead Sponsor:
National Taiwan University Hospital
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
Conditions:
Stroke
Eligibility:
All Genders
30-75 years
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of cane use on the movement, kinetics, and associated attentional demands of performing a voluntary forward stepping movement in patients with st...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Inclusion Criteria:
- Healthy subjects
- Age ang Sex are correspond with the stroke subjects(between 30 and 75 years old)
- being willing to sign an informed consent approved by the Human Subjects Committee of the National Taiwan University Hospital
- Stroke subjects
- between 30 and 75 years old
- stroke confirmed by ICD-10-CM (including I60, I61, I62, I63, I67, and I63.9)
- first stroke with single side hemiplegia and received acute treatment at NTUH
- being willing to sign an informed consent approved by the Human Subjects Committee of the National Taiwan University Hospital
- able to stand independently for 10 minutes and to forward step without ankle-foot orthosis
- Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score at least 24
- Excursion criteria:
- Healthy subjects
- having other neurological diseases, or moderate to severe neuromuscular or musculoskeletal disorders, or disorders from systematic diseases those would influence the belance or motor ability
- Stroke subjects
- having unstable vital sign, unconsciousness, or obvious cognitive, perception, and language impairment, and couldn't communicate with the experimenters
- having other neurological diseases, or moderate to severe neuromuscular or musculoskeletal or cardiovascular disorders, or disorders from systematic diseases those will influence standing ability other than stroke
- having hemi-neglect or hemi-anopia
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2002
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
End Date :
July 1 2003
Estimated Enrollment :
22 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00172146
Start Date
August 1 2002
End Date
July 1 2003
Last Update
September 15 2005
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School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy College of Medicine, National Taiwan University
Taipei, Province of China, Taiwan, 100