NCT03054974

TCM Clinical Practice Rehabilitation of Post-stroke Spasticity

Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Practice Rehabilitation of Post-stroke Spasticity

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,208 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness,safety and Input-output ratio of chinese traditional treatment in spasm after stroke,both in massage and herbal medicine bathing.

Detailed description

A Muti-center randomized controlled study with large samples to observe improvement of motor function,severity of spasm,ADL(activity of daily lives),by standardized protocols of TCM techniques(massage and herbal bathing) combined with conventional rehabilitation on spasm after stroke in 1 month.Modified Ashworth scale,Fugl-Meyer Index and Modified barthel Index were used for spasm,motor function and ADL.And also the follow up research within 3 months and 6 months focus on the efficacy duration of TCM on spasm.Try to find suitable timing for intervention on spasm by CTM(Massage and herbal medicine bathing)and the connection between spasm severity and treatment efficacy.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Modern rehabilitation treatment	PT 1 hour per day and OT 30min per day
OTHER	Modern rehabilitation &TCM	Traditional Chinese Medicine, including massage and medicated bath
OTHER	modern rehabilitation &Baimai Ruangao	modern rehabilitation treatment with Baimai Ruangao and massage
OTHER	modern rehabilitation &Tibetan medicine	modern rehabilitation treatment and Tibetan medicine(medicated bath with wuweiganlu and rub with baimairuangao)

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-01-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-01
• Completion: 2018-12-01
• First posted: 2017-02-16
• Last updated: 2017-02-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China