Energetic costs for balance control during walking in stroke patients.
Recruiting
- Conditions
- cerebrovasculr accidentstroke10007963
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON34158
- Lead Sponsor
- Heliomare
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 28
Inclusion Criteria
- Age: 35-75 years old
- Able to walk independently indoors for 4 minutes (minimal FAC 3)
- Maximum score on Berg Balance Scale of 50 (for patientgroup)
Exclusion Criteria
- cognitive or communicative disorders that can affect the protocol (Mini Mental State Examination * 24),
- visual impairments that can affect the protocol
- attention impairments that can affect the protocol
- severe cardiovascular diseases that contra indicate moderately intense exercise
- other co-morbidities that could affect balance control or energy expenditure during walking
- medication that could interfere with balance control or energy expenditure during walking.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Main outcome: Energy costs (J/kg/m)</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>In all conditions parameters of gait will be calculated as: walking speed<br /><br>(m/s), cadence (stride/s), stride length (m), step width (m) and symmetry<br /><br>(paretic stance phase (s) * non-paratic stance phase (s)).<br /><br>In the Ps and Pns condition the performance on the pattern walking task will be<br /><br>quantified as the error in foot placement, which will be measured as the amount<br /><br>of variation of the position of Center of Pressure with respect to the<br /><br>projected foot prints </p><br>