NCT04349488

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Acute Stroke Walking

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Improves Walking and Balance in Acute Stroke Patients - a Randomized, Double-blind, Sham-controlled Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 16 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Liege · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

16 acute stroke patients will be split into 2 groups. One group will receive the real treatment (anodal tDCS) and one group sham. Subjects will receive, in addition to conventional rehabilitation, 2mA for 20 mins of their attributed tDCS, 5 times a week. Evaluations will take place before the first stimulation period (48h post stroke), after 1, 2, 3 and 4 weeks. The evaluations are the Four Square Step Test, the Berg Balance Scale, the Postural Assessment Scale For Stroke, the Trunk Impairment Scale, the Time Up \& Go and the 10 meter walking test.

Conditions

• Acute Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation	Subjects received a micro-current through their scalp to induce cortical and subcortical changes

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-04-16
• Primary completion: 2020-06-30
• Completion: 2020-06-30
• First posted: 2020-04-16
• Last updated: 2020-04-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium