Effect Of Muscle Strengthening on The Upper Limb Motor Recovery After Stroke
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Stroke. Abnormalities of gait and mobility.
- Registration Number
- RBR-22y7p9
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Data analysis completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
six months to five years since the onset of a unilateral stroke; ability to comprehend simple instructions (Mini-Mental State Examination with a minimum score of 20); no pain, contractures, or severe weakness in shoulder flexion muscles (< 3 in the Manual Muscular Testing); and no upper-limb rehabilitation during this research.
Exclusion Criteria
other neurological, neuromuscular, or orthopedic disease; severe comorbidity diseases; or severe increase of upper extremity muscular tone(> 3 points according to the modified Ashworth scale).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To evaluate the improvement of performance of the upper limb in unilateral and bilateral activities through evaluation test of the upper limb of elderly (TEMPA - Test d'évaluation des des Personnes Membres Superieus Agées);TEMPA scores significantly improved in both groups throughout the intervention period (outcome measures) and at the follow-up. The main between groups analysis demonstrated that the FS group had the largest change in the unilateral task analysis (rate of change of 43%; p=0.04) and in the unilateral total score (rate of change of 46%; p=0.04), compared to the AS group with a rate of change of 13% and 13.5%, respectively. In the follow-up measures, although the rate of change was higher in the FS group, no statistically significant differences were observed.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method