Comparing Breather Device versus Inspiratory Muscle Training for Improved Trunk Stability in Spinal Cord Injury Survivors: A Randomized Controlled Study
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: G958- Other specified diseases of spinalcord
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2024/02/062507
- Lead Sponsor
- Dr Janardhana Aithala P
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
1 Participants must be between the ages of 18 and 50 and have traumatic paraplegia
resulting from a spinal cord injury at the neurological level of T1-T7.
2 ASIA scale A and B
3 Spinal cord injury survivors with a sitting balance score of = 1 on the trunk control test.
(TCT)
4 Participants must be at least 15 days post-surgery and medically stable.
Participants will be excluded from the study if;
1 Traumatic Brain Injury.
2 The individuals are not able to follow the instructions.
3 Traumatic pneumothorax that has not fully healed.
4 Burst eardrum or other conditions of the eardrum.
5 Unstable asthma with an abnormally low perception of dyspnoea.
6 Major fractures in the lower limb like the Pelvis and long bones.
7 Neuromuscular disorders.
8 Preexisting neurological disease
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Thickness of Diaphragm and Rectus abdominis muscle. <br/ ><br>2. Sitting Balance: Sitting balance Measure and Lord Sway meter.Timepoint: At the baseline of the study and upon completion of the 3-week evaluation.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Quality of life: Spinal cord independence Measure.Timepoint: Upon completion of 3 weeks of intervention.