NCT02837068

Effect of Wheelchair Handrail Compensator and Rehabilitation Training for Patients With Hemiplegic Shoulder Pain

Effect and Evaluation: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Wheelchair Handrail Compensator and Rehabilitation Training for Stroke Patients With Shoulder Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether wheelchair handrail compensator plus rehabilitation training could do better than ordinary wheelchair plus rehabilitation training in relieving pain and improving daily life activity, upper limb motor function and quality of life for patients with hemiplegic shoulder pain.

Detailed description

The ideal management of hemiplegic shoulder pain(HSP) is prevention,and a normal limb position is necessary for preventing and reducing hemiplegic shoulder pain.The foam or board supports has been used to prevent shoulder pain and could be recommended for wheelchair users to keep normal position. Therefore, the investigators designed the equipment wheelchair handrail compensator and expected to help paralyzed limbs to maintain a normal position.Using of the wheelchair handrail compensator may help patients achieve: pain relieve, improvement of upper limb function and increase of the quality of life.The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of treatment by wheelchair handrail compensator and rehabilitation training for people with hemiplegic shoulder pain.

Conditions

• Shoulder Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Wheelchair handrail compensator	Patients were treated by wheelchair handrail compensator for six times per week during the four-weeks treatment, with each treatment lasting at least 60 minutes, and follow up by eight weeks. The handrail compensator would help the paralysis upper limb kept the shoulder joint stretch forward, the elbow joint extend, the forearm in pronation, the wrist in flection and the fingers extend.
DEVICE	Ordinary wheelchair	Patients were treated by ordinary wheelchair for six times per week during the four-weeks treatment, with each treatment lasting at least 60 minutes, and follow up by eight weeks.The ordinary handrail could prevent the disable arm from sinking, but could not help the upper limp keep a normal position.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-12-01
• Primary completion: 2015-10-01
• Completion: 2015-11-01
• First posted: 2016-07-19
• Last updated: 2016-07-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China