Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT04314830
Gait Perturbations to Improve Balance Post-stroke
Unpredictable Perturbations During Gait to Improve Balance Performance, Confidence and Participation in Persons With Hemiparesis at a Chronic Stage: a Pilot Study
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 21 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 70 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Individuals with stroke have balance and gait deficits. Gait training does improve balance and gait abilities, but adding perturbations may have increase these effects. The objective was to compare the effect gait training with and without perturbations on balance and gait abilities in individuals with hemiparesis due to stroke at a chronic stage.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DEVICE | Gait training with perturbations | Changes in speed of one of the belt of the split belt treadmill during swing phase |
| DEVICE | Gait training without perturbation | Walking on a treadmill with steady belt speed |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2016-08-05
- Primary completion
- 2018-09-14
- Completion
- 2018-10-30
- First posted
- 2020-03-19
- Last updated
- 2020-03-19
Regulatory
- FDA-regulated device study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04314830. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.