Roads to recovery
- Conditions
- Stroke
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON25043
- Lead Sponsor
- Radboud University Medical Center
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 70
To be eligible for participation, an individual must meet the following criteria:
- Having sustained a unilateral supratentorial stroke more than 6 months ago, with mild to moderate impairments.
- Able to stand and walk independently or under supervision (Functional Ambulation Categories = 3).
- Completed inpatient rehabilitation
- Age 18 or older
Potential participants who meet any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation:
- Conditions in which physical exercise is contra-indicated.
- Unable to walk for 10 minutes without walking aid.
- Receiving physiotherapy focusing on balance or gait that cannot be cancelled during participation in this study.
- Having received perturbation-based training with visual and/or mechanical perturbations in the previous year.
- Any other neurological or musculoskeletal conditions affecting balance.
- Current orthopaedic problems; hip or knee replacement, or limb amputation.
- Severe cognitive problems (Montreal Cognitive Assessment < 24).
- Persistent visuo-spatial neglect (Star-Cancellation Test = 50).
- Use of psychotropic drugs or other medication negatively affecting balance.
- Behavioral problems interfering with compliance to the study protocol.
- Unable to stand for 15 minutes without orthosis or walking aid.
- Pregnancy.
- Unable to give consent.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The primary outcome measure will be the integrity of muscle synergies (i.e., coordinated muscle recruitment) before and after intervention.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The secondary outcome measures of the intervention study will be clinimetric parameters: Mini-BESTest, the 10-meter walking test and the Activities specific Balance Confidence scale. Furthermore, electrical brain activity will be measured from the participants’ scalp to determine cortical activity related to the control of balance and gait before and after training.