NCT02437006

Early Intervention With a Low-intensity Leg Cycling Exercise Program for Individuals After Stroke

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a two-stage study. In the first stage, 30 subjects with stroke (onset \> 2 weeks) are recruited, and they are assessed and recorded with clinical characteristics, sympathetic nerve testing, and twice symptom-limit exercise capacity tests. The second stage would recruited 90 subjects with stroke (onset\>2 weeks), and they are randomized to one of three groups (control, low-intensity, high-intensity). They are evaluated before and after the four-week interval with clinical characteristics and twice symptom-limit exercise capacity tests (baseline and after four-week training) .

Detailed description

This is a two-stage study. In the first stage, 30 subjects with stroke (onset \> 2 weeks) are recruited, and they are assessed and recorded with sympathetic nerve testing, anthropometry, and twice symptom-limit exercise capacity tests.The second stage would recruited 90 subjects with stroke (onset\>2 weeks), and they are randomized to one of three groups. The control group undergoes traditional rehabilitation only, The low-intensity exercise group receives a low-intensity four-week cycle ergometry and traditional rehabilitation. The The high-intensity exercise group gets a high-intensity four-week cycle ergometry and traditional rehabilitation. They are evaluated by sympathetic tests, anthropometry, functional scales and activity questionnaires, and symptom-limit exercise capacity tests before and after the four-week training.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	exercise	cycle ergometry

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-03-01
• Primary completion: 2017-03-01
• Completion: 2017-03-01
• First posted: 2015-05-07
• Last updated: 2015-05-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan