NCT02821845

Eccentric Motor Control After SCI

Eccentric Motor Control Training to Improve Human Spinal Cord Injury: Observation of Hip and Knee Function

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• 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 slow to moderate speeds - targeted to rehabilitation eccentric function of the hip and knee.

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 hip and knee during locomotion and evaluate the efficacy of downhill gait training at slow speeds as an intervention to improve eccentric function of the hip joint and knee joint during walking.

Conditions

• Spinal Cord Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Untrained and Trained SCI Hip or Knee	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 hip control or knee 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: 2016-07-04
• Last updated: 2021-03-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States