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Effects of gait training with a voluntary driven Wearable Cyborg, Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL), in patients with spinal cord disease

Not Applicable
Conditions
spinal cord disease
Registration Number
JPRN-UMIN000041280
Lead Sponsor
Dept of Rehabilitation Medicine, Hirosaki University, Graduate school of Medicine
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Complete: follow-up continuing
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
10
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Other central nervous system diseases, nerve/muscle diseases, or locomotor system diseases clearly influence the deterioration of walking ability. HAL is difficult to wear due to severe deformation of limbs and trunk caused by osteoarthritis, spondylosis, scoliosis, etc. It is difficult to follow the instructions due to severe dementia. Has respiratory, circulatory, and metabolic system dysfunction, bleeding tendency, and osteoporosis, which are problems in training. Biomedical electrodes cannot be attached due to skin diseases.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
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The parameters were measured before treatment, 3 month after treatment. 1. JOA score 2. ADL score(Barthel index,Functional Independence Measure) 3. Patient-standing QOL score(SF36,EuroQOL-5D) 4. 10-m walk test 5. 6-min walk test 6. Tilt of the trunk and angle of hips, knees and ankles during walking 7. Lower extremity muscle activity during walking (gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, quadriceps, hamstring, tibialis anterior, triceps surae) 8. Signal intensity of nerve conduction path in simple MRI images (Synthetic MRI, Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping, diffusion tensor image, 3D-MRI, 3D-FLAIR, Finger-Printing)
Secondary Outcome Measures
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