NCT02560506

Development of Low Cost Devices to Increase Access to Treadmill Training

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 19 (actual)
• Sponsor: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goals of this Model System Program are to expand upon and advance the findings and outcomes of previous and current Model Systems clinical research, to continue to develop and study the effectiveness of innovative treatment strategies for persons with spinal cord injury (SCI); and to evaluate the benefits of a well-designed, comprehensive, coordinated, interdisciplinary continuum of care that lead to improved outcomes for all persons with SCI. In order to achieve these goals, the following objectives of the Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System (MRSCICS) model system grant proposal will be accomplished.

Detailed description

The investigators will develop and assess the use of spring-loaded devices to assist limb swing and forward propulsion during body weight supported treadmill training (BWSTT) (Aim 1). Prototype models of both devices have been developed. These devices will be: 1. simple to use in the clinical setting; 2. will be easily adjustable to alter the assistance provided; and, 3. will be able to quantify the amount of assistance necessary to facilitate normal stepping patterns. The investigators will also evaluate short- and long-term adaptations in locomotor performance following BWSTT in individuals with incomplete SCI with the use of these devices. This information will identify the effects of variable assistance at the limbs or trunk to modulate muscle activity and/or motor performance (kinematics) during stepping to maximize walking recovery.

Conditions

• Spinal Cord Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Elastic assisted treadmill walking	Rubber band pulley system that will assist therapists in advancing limbs while gait training. The device is positioned in front of a treadmill and the stretch of the elastic bands when a legs moves backwards on a treadmill is resists the movement and facilitates limb swing when walking.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-09-01
• Completion: 2016-09-01
• First posted: 2015-09-25
• Last updated: 2016-12-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States