NCT07336667

The Effect of Robot-Assisted Gait Training With or Without Plantar Pressure Summary Feedback: Impact on Gait Symmetry and Balance in Hemiplegic Patients

족저압 요약 피드백 제공 유무에 따른 로봇보조보행훈련의 효과: 편마비 환자의 보행 대칭성과 균형에 미치는 영향; The Effect of Robot-Assisted Gait Training With or Without Plantar Pressure Summary Feedback: Impact on Gait Symmetry and Balance in Hemiplegic Patients

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 26 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Yeonji Choi · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this randomized, single-blind clinical trial is to learn whether a 4-week Lokomat-based gait training program with plantar pressure feedback can improve gait symmetry and balance in adult patients with chronic hemiplegic stroke. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does Lokomat training with plantar pressure feedback improve spatiotemporal gait symmetry, as measured with the GAITRite system, more than Lokomat training without plantar pressure feedback? Does this intervention lead to greater improvements in balance and walking speed, assessed by the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) and the 10-Meter Walk Test (10MWT), compared with conventional Lokomat training? Researchers will compare a group receiving Lokomat training with both real-time feedback and additional summary plantar pressure feedback to a group receiving Lokomat training with real-time feedback only, to see if adding plantar pressure feedback results in superior gains in gait symmetry, balance, and walking ability. Participants will be adult inpatients with chronic hemiplegic stroke. They will be randomly assigned to one of the two training groups and will receive Lokomat-based gait training three times per week for 30 minutes per session over four weeks. Before and after the intervention period, participants will undergo gait analysis using the GAITRite walkway and clinical assessments including the BBS and 10MWT.

Conditions

• Stroke
• Hemiplegia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Lokomat robot assisted gait training	Lokomat robot assisted gait training for 30 minutes per session, 3 times per week, for 4 weeks. Real-time(biofeedback graph) visual and auditory feedback provided by the Lokomat system is used during gait training in both groups.
OTHER	Plantar pressure summary feedback	Experimental group, plantar pressure data are collected during each Lokomat session using instrumented insoles. After each session, session by session plantar pressure summary feed back and gait symmetry is provided to the participant to promote more symmetrical gait. The control group does not receive this plantar summary feedback.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-02-05
• Primary completion: 2026-03-10
• Completion: 2026-04-20
• First posted: 2026-01-13
• Last updated: 2026-01-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea