Body Weight Supported Treadmill Training as Physical Therapy Treatment to Spinal Cord Injury Patients
- Conditions
- Spinal Cord Injury/Damage
- Interventions
- Procedure: BWSTT (3 days a week for maximum of 20 minutes session)
- Registration Number
- NCT02031835
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Ioannina
- Brief Summary
The purpose of this current prospective study is to assess the effects of body weight support treadmill training (BWSTT) in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Training intervention aim at improving: quality of life, walking capability, spasticity, functions in every day life, bone mass density and related hematological factors. The examination consisted of (1) neurological classification by ASIA standard neurological classification of spinal cord injury working sheet, (2) spasticity evaluation of lower limbs by Modified Ashworth Scale, (3) walking independence evaluation by Walking Index for Spinal Cord Injury II (WISCI II), (4) patient's quality of life perspective by World Health Quality of Life- BREF (WHOQOL-BREF), (5) the functional status by 10-item Modified Barthel Index, (6) bone mass density (BMD) by Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scan, (7) body tissue consistency by full body DXA scan, (8) skeletal system health associated blood factors (calcitonin, osteocalcin, 25 OH vitamin D, 1,25- (OH)2 vitamin D, ostase and parathyroid hormone) by hematological tests. The results will be collected and evaluated using statistical software (i.e. SPSS).
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 26
- SCI
- ASIA classification B, C or D
- clinical stable
- unstable cardiac conditions
- epilepsy
- autonomic dysreflexia
- significant musculoskeletal problems in lower extremities other than SCI
- Parkinson's disease
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description BWSTT (3 days a week for maximum of 20 minutes session) BWSTT (3 days a week for maximum of 20 minutes session) BWSTT (20 minutes of treadmill training (velocity (≥0.1km/h) and body weight support (≤40% of patients weight) according to patients capability and comfort
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method WISCI II At the time of Admittance to the rehabilitation department (at baseline) and after six weeks Change of walking independence at six weeks
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method WHOQOL-BREF At the time of Admittance to the rehabilitation department (at baseline) and after six weeks Change of patients' perspective of life quality at six weeks
10-item Modified Barthel Index At the time of Admittance to the rehabilitation department (at baseline) and after six weeks Change of function at six weeks
DXA scan At the time of Admittance to the rehabilitation department (at baseline) and after six weeks Change of BMD of hip and spine at six weeks
ASIA standard neurological classification for spinal cord injury patients working sheet At the time of Admittance to the rehabilitation department (at baseline) and after six weeks Change of neurological impairment status at six weeks
Full Body DXA scan At the time of Admittance to the rehabilitation department (at baseline) and after six weeks Change of body tissue consistency at six weeks
Modified Ashworth scale At the time of Admittance to the rehabilitation department (at baseline) and after six weeks Change of spasticity of leg muscles at six weeks
Hematological analysis At the time of Admittance to the rehabilitation department (at baseline) and after six weeks Change of blood's calcitonin, osteocalcin, 25 OH vitamin D, 1,25- (OH)2 vitamin D, ostase and parathyroid hormone concentrations at six weeks
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University Hospital of Ioannina
🇬🇷Ioannina, Greece