NCT04477330

Cortical Priming to Optimize Gait Rehabilitation in Stroke: a Renewal

Cortical Priming to Optimize Gait Rehabilitation: Renewal

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Achieving functional ambulation post stroke continues to be a challenge for stroke survivors, clinicians, and researchers. In the effort to enhance outcomes of motor training, cortical priming using brain stimulation has emerged as a promising adjuvant to conventional rehabilitation. This project focuses on the development of a long term gait rehabilitation protocol using brain stimulation to improve walking outcomes in people with stroke. The project will also aim to understand the neural mechanisms that are associated with response to the intervention.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)	1 mA tDCS
OTHER	Ankle motor training	Visuomotor target tracking task
BEHAVIORAL	High intensity interval speed based treadmill training (HIISTT)	Each treadmill session to include warm-up, high intensity speed-based intervals interleaved with active recovery, and cool down.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-01
• Primary completion: 2025-12-31
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2020-07-20
• Last updated: 2025-08-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States