Fast Stepping in Stroke Patients for Fall Prediction and Prevention:Control Mechanisms and Clinical Implications

• Conditions: Stroke

• Registration Number: NCT00167037
• Lead Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study was to compare the balance strategy, as well as center of pressure (COP) trajectory and parameters between healthy adults and patients with hemiplegia in response to slow- and fast-speed waist- pulling perturbations in forward, left, right, and backward directions.

Detailed Description

The ability to quickly respond to external perturbations is an important capacity of stroke patients to maintain dynamic balance in activities of daily living. The purpose of this study was to compare the balance strategy, as well as center of pressure (COP) trajectory and parameters between healthy adults and patients with hemiplegia in response to slow- and fast-speed waist- pulling perturbations in forward, left, right, and backward directions.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 1999-08
• Study Completion: 2002-07
• Status Verified: 2005-09
• Study First Submitted: 2005-09-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2005-09-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2005-09-12
• Study First Posted: 2005-09-14
• Last Update Posted: 2005-09-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

Healthy adults

• Age ang Sex are correspond with the stroke subjects(between 40 and 75 years old)
• being willing to accept one-year follow-up examination
• being willing to sign an informed consent approved by the Human Subjects Committee of the National Taiwan University Hospital Stroke patients
• between 40 and 75 years old
• stroke confirmed by ICD-10-CM (including I60, I61, I62, I63, I67, and I69)
• first stroke with single side hemiplegia and received acute treatment at NTUH
• being willing to sign an informed consent approved by the Human Subjects Committee of the National Taiwan University Hospital
• able to step forward, laterally and backward independently without assistive device

Excursion criteria:

Healthy adults

• • having other neurological diseases, or moderate to severe neuromuscular or musculoskeletal disorders, or disorders from systematic diseases those would influence the belance or motor ability Stroke patients
• having unstable vital sign, unconsciousness, or obvious cognitive, perception, and language impairment, and couldn't communicate with the experimenters
• having other neurological diseases, or moderate to severe neuromuscular or musculoskeletal or cardiovascular disorders, or disorders from systematic diseases other than stroke

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified