NCT03875066

Immediate Effects of Stepping Training Using External Feedback in Spinal Cord Injury Patients

Immediate Effects of Stepping Training With or Without External Feedback on Walking and Functional Ability in Ambulatory Patients With Spinal Cord Injury

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Khon Kaen University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

* Does stepping training with or without external feedback change functional ability of ambulatory patients with iSCI immediately after training? * Are there significant differences between the immediate effects of stepping training with or without external feedback in ambulatory patients with iSCI?

Detailed description

To compare immediate effects of stepping training with or without the utility of external feedback on functional ability relating to walking in ambulatory patients with iSCI (between-group comparison). Secondary objective To compare immediate effects in a group of stepping training with or without the utility of external feedback on functional ability relating to walking in ambulatory patients with iSCI (within-group comparison).

Conditions

• Spinal Cord Injuries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Stepping training without feedback	Subjects stand in a step standing position with placing one leg on the load cells of the device and the other leg at the posterolateral direction to the trained leg outside the load cells. Then subjects will be instructed to shift/take their body-weight onto the trained leg as most as they can. If the subjects can take a proper level of their body-weight onto the trained leg, the subjects can step the other leg forward to the marker. Then they have to do the same when steps the leg backward.
OTHER	Stepping training with feedback	Subjects stand in a step standing position with placing one leg on the load cells of the device and the other leg at the posterolateral direction to the trained leg outside the load cells, look at the displayed section which will be positioned at their eye level. Then subjects will be instructed to shift/take their body-weight onto the trained leg until the green zone of the displayed section is lightened. When the subjects can take a proper level of their body-weight onto the trained leg, the beep sound will be alarmed to trigger the subjects and therapist that the subjects can step the other leg forward to the marker. Then they have to do the same when steps the leg backward.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-04-19
• Primary completion: 2018-10-31
• Completion: 2019-07-31
• First posted: 2019-03-14
• Last updated: 2019-12-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Thailand