Does treadmill-based gait training with the Incedo-system improve walking performance and gait parameters in subacute stroke patients with severe hemiparesis who are unable to walk independently

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: I60; I62; I63; I64; I61; Subarachnoid haemorrhage; Intracerebral haemorrhage; Other nontraumatic intracranial haemorrhage; Cerebral infarction; Stroke, not specified as haemorrhage or infarction

• Registration Number: DRKS00031910
• Lead Sponsor: urija Institut, Kliniken Schmieder

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-06-15
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 50

Inclusion Criteria

Stroke < 6 months
- Patients who can only walk with the permanent support of at least
one assistant (FAC 0-1)
- Patients with whom treadmill-assisted gait training can be carried out
with weight support
- Patients are trunk stable (item sitting from the Trunk Control Test =
25 points)
- Patient is able to tolerate electrostimulation.
- Visible response to stimulation both sitting and walking
- Ability to give consent to participate in the study and to follow
instructions
- Ability to communicate
- Electrostimulation is only used with the consent of the doctor treating
the patient

Exclusion Criteria

- More than one stroke in the history, unless the patient has no
neurological deficits from the previous strokes.
- Other neurological diseases
- Lack of compliance
- Epilepsy
- Patients with heart pacemakers
- Patients with severe heart or lung diseases
- Patients with cancer
- Skin lesions in the area where the electrode is positioned
- Pregnancy
- Patients who adjust to the electrical stimulus in a short time or patients in
whom a higher stimulation intensity triggers spasticity or clonus in the
affected leg

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified