NCT00849303

Multicenter Rehabilitation Study in Acute Stroke

Gait-Oriented Rehabilitation at Different Phases in Patients With Acute Stroke - Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 2 / Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Jyvaskyla · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the first part of this study is to understand plastic brain mechanisms associated with successful gait-oriented stroke rehabilitation. Patients are randomized to receive intensive in-patient multiprofessional rehabilitation at different time points. One group will receive rehabilitation immediately after an acute care at the neurological clinic (8 days) and one group 5 weeks after the insult. Patients practise walking every workday for 60 min (actual 30min) either on a treadmill or on a gait trainer for four weeks, and receive also other physiotherapy. In addition to selected parameters measuring brain plasticity, detailed assessments of functional abilities including motor ability and quality of life will be performed. A novel tool, MR-image navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is utilized in assessing cortical excitability in relation to stroke, time, rehabilitation, and recovery.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	gait-oriented rehabilitation	Patients practise walking every workday for 60 min (actual 30min) either on a treadmill or on a gait trainer for four weeks, and receive also other physiotherapy 60 min daily.Patients starts within 10 days since stroke onset.
OTHER	gait-oriented rehabilitation	Patients practise walking every workday for 60 min (actual 30min) either on a treadmill or on a gait trainer for four weeks, and receive also other physiotherapy 60 min daily.Patients starts five weeks after stroke onset.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-01-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• First posted: 2009-02-23
• Last updated: 2009-02-23

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: Finland