NCT03375346

Effects of Whole-body Vibration Exercise on Stroke Patients

Effects of Whole-body Vibration Exercise on Brain Activity and Physical Function in Hemiplegia Stroke Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 29 (actual)
• Sponsor: Samsung Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the whole body vibration exercise on cortical activity and gait function in patients with chronic stroke.

Detailed description

Whole body vibration exercise can provide proper somatosensory stimulation and improve muscle strength and postural control in stroke patients. However, there has not yet been a report on the cortical activity changes induced by whole body vibration exercise. Patients will be randomly assigned to one of the two groups. One group will go through whole body vibration with exercise and the other will only perform exercise. The primary outcome measurement of this study was cerebral cortex activity based on changes in oxygenated hemoglobin concentration using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Behavioral assessments were performed before and after the intervention session using the 10-meter walk test, timed up and go test, Fugl-Meyer Assessment, and Tinetti Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment.

Conditions

• Stroke
• Hemiplegia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Whole body vibration	whole body vibration exercise is a stimulus that uses vibrations generated on a machine with oscillatory movement determined by the amplitude and frequency of the vibration.
OTHER	Exercise	maintain a half-squat position (knee joint angle at 160 degrees) on the tilt table with an incline of 60 degrees

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-08-04
• Primary completion: 2017-08-03
• Completion: 2017-08-03
• First posted: 2017-12-18
• Last updated: 2017-12-20