NCT03814460

Stroke and Assessment of Muscle Tone

Stroke and Myotonometer: Validity, Reliability and Discrimination Between the Mechanical and Sensory Component of Spasticity

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 65 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Seville · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Spasticity is defined as a state of increased muscle tone, which evokes an increased resistance to a passive and fast stretching of the muscle. Indeed, the degree of spasticity depends, among other things, on the stretching velocity performed to the muscle. However, most of the tools used in the clinical setting to assess spasticity do not take into account the relationship between increased muscle tone and speed of stretching. Instead of that, muscle tone is usually assessed in a relaxed position of the muscle. Likewise, to date, despite the functional disabilities related to the presence of chronic pain after a stroke, no previous study has correlated muscle tone and pressure pain sensitivity within this population

Conditions

• Stroke
• Muscle Tone Abnormalities
• Pain
• Muscle Spasticity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Assessment of Tone, Pain and Thickness	Evaluation of Muscle state of tension, self-reported response to mechanical pressure pain and muscle thickness. The evaluation process of muscle tone and pressure pain sensitivity will be carried out following a topographical mapping covering myotendinous and muscle belly sites in the biceps brachii and the gastrocnemius muscles

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-02-02
• Primary completion: 2019-08-25
• Completion: 2019-08-25
• First posted: 2019-01-24
• Last updated: 2019-09-23

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Spain