Effects of ankle joint motion training using a lower limb exoskeleton robot among hemiplegic patients with stroke

Michiyuki Kawakami0 sites50 target enrollmentOctober 1, 2021

Overview

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

October 1, 2021

End Date

TBD

Last Updated

2 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

Michiyuki Kawakami

•Stroke patients
•Hemiplegia due to unilateral cerebral hemisphere lesion
•Age: 18 years and older
•Lower limb motor impairment, SIAS(foot pat) 1 or greater
•Ankle dorsiflexion range of motion is 0 degrees or greater.
•Patients who do not have severe aphasia or cognitive impairment and can understand the purpose of the study.
•Patients with no contraindication to exercise therapy.

•Examples of contraindications to exercise therapy (details are given below)
•1\) Serious cardiac disease: unstable angina, myocardial infarction of short duration, non\-compensated congestive heart failure, acute pulmonary heart, uncontrolled arrhythmia, severe aortic stenosis, active myocarditis, endocarditis, etc.
•2\) Poorly controlled hypertension
•(iii) Acute systemic illness or fever
•(iv) Recent pulmonary embolism, acute pulmonary heart, severe pulmonary hypertension
•5\) Complication of severe hepatic or renal dysfunction
•(6\) Complication of severe orthopedic disease that interferes with lower limb movement
•7\) Severe cognitive impairment, severe psychiatric disease
•(viii) Other metabolic disorders (e.g., acute thyroiditis)
•(9\) Patients with spontaneous pain or inflammation of the ankle joint