NCT04303728

Use of Muscle Ultrasound to Predict Function

Muscle Ultrasound as a Predictor of Functional Status in Spinal Cord Injury Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tan Tock Seng Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Establish if change from the baseline in ultrasound muscle parameters over 2 months of rehabilitation correlates with functional status of SCI patients at the end of rehabilitation

Detailed description

Rehabilitation is the key to ambulatory recovery in patients with spinal cord injury, although only 25% of patients regain this ability despite current rehabilitation protocols. There is emerging evidence that intensive and prolonged rehabilitation, though costly and manpower intensive, may result in ambulatory recovery in patients previously thought to be non-ambulant. However, there are no suitable clinical biomarkers which can identify these group of patients who will benefit from this intervention. Hence the aim is to establish if change from the baseline in ultrasound muscle parameters over rehabilitation correlates with functional status of SCI patients.

Conditions

• Spinal Cord Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Muscle ultrasound	The muscle thickness and muscle quality will be assessed on ultrasound

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-02-01
• Primary completion: 2022-01-30
• Completion: 2022-01-30
• First posted: 2020-03-11
• Last updated: 2022-04-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Singapore