NCT01106755

Effects of Ground Level Gait Training With Body Weight Support (BWS) and Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)

Ground-level Gait Training Combining Body Weight Support and Functional Electrical Stimulation in People Following Chronic Stroke

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of gait training on ground level, combining BWS and FES in people following chronic stroke.

Detailed description

The body weight support system (BWS) associated to a treadmill as well as to a functional electrical stimulation (FES) of the common peroneal nerve, has been proposed as a strategy for gait training in people following stroke. Moreover, it has also considered that the ground level is the most common locomotion surface, and that there is little information about the effects of gait training, on this kind of surface, in people with hemiparesis.

Conditions

• Hemiparesis
• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	gait training on ground level using BWS	An A1-B-A2 system was applied in which A1 and A2 corresponded to gait training on ground level using Body Weight Support (BWS). Each training phase was performed during 45 minutes, three times a week, for six weeks.
DEVICE	gait training on ground level using BWS associated to FES	An A1-B-A2 system was applied in which B corresponded to the training associated to Functional Electrical Stimulation. Each training phase was performed during 45 minutes, three times a week, for six weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-09-01
• Primary completion: 2009-05-01
• Completion: 2009-12-01
• First posted: 2010-04-20
• Last updated: 2010-04-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil