NCT02504073

Clinical Reasoning Process of Physiotherapists When Observing Hemiplegic Gait

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 54 (actual)
• Sponsor: Technical University of Bern · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to find out what clinical reasoning process physiotherapists undergo when observing hemiplegic patients gait.

Detailed description

Physiotherapists don't usually use any assessments to evaluate gait but observe it without an instrument. The questions in this study are: * what abnormalities can physiotherapists detect when observing a patient walking? * what do they consider the main problem that has a negative effect on the patient's walking? * what hypothesis do they generate? * how is the inter-rater reliability for the "main problem" and the hypothesis?

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	No intervention	No intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-03-01
• Primary completion: 2015-06-01
• Completion: 2015-12-01
• First posted: 2015-07-21
• Last updated: 2017-08-02
• Results posted: 2017-08-02