NCT02498548

Training of Eccentric Lower Extremity Function After SCI

Eccentric Motor Control Training to Improve Human Spinal Cord Injury: Intervention for Hip and Knee Function

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 49 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ohio State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This project will characterize lower extremity eccentric muscle function among individuals who have undergone locomotor training after spinal cord injury and will evaluate the effect of downhill training at moderate speeds - targeted to rehabilitation eccentric function of the knee or hip.

Detailed description

Lower extremity eccentric motor control is is critically important for locomotor function but is impaired after spinal cord injury (SCI). Even after treadmill training, preliminary evidence indicates that eccentric deficits persist among individuals with SCI. This proposal aims to characterize eccentric motor control of the muscles about the knee or hip during locomotion and evaluate the efficacy of downhill gait training at moderate speeds as an intervention to improve eccentric function of the knee joint or hip joint during walking.

Conditions

• Spinal Cord Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Trained SCI Knee or Trained SCI Hip	Individuals with SCI will perform downhill walking training 3 times a week for 12 wks with a 4 wk follow-up period. This intervention will be delivered by trained therapists. In order to focus on rehabilitation of knee control or hip control, members of this group will be trained at slow to moderate gait speeds.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-06-01
• Primary completion: 2019-10-01
• Completion: 2019-10-01
• First posted: 2015-07-15
• Last updated: 2021-03-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States