Evaluation of the effect of Unihemispheric Concurrent Dual-Site Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex AND primary motor cortex on improvement of lower limb motor function in patients with chronic stroke: A double-blind controlled clinical trial
- Conditions
- Stroke.Vascular syndromes of brain in cerebrovascular diseases
- Registration Number
- IRCT20211030052912N3
- Lead Sponsor
- Rasht University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 37
First stroke
Medial Cerebellar Artery (MCA) stroke
The ability to verbally communicate with the therapist
Patients using the Ashworth Modified Modified Scale (MMAS) to have a knee flexion muscle spasm severity of 1 or higher
No history of a brain tumor
Patients who do not have severe cognitive and memory disorders. To determine this, the Persian version of the Mini-Mental State Examination is used and patients must score at least 23 out of a total of 30
Patients with chronic neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, radiculopathy, and musculoskeletal disorders, especially upper extremity movement disorders, diagnosed by a neurologist.
History of seizures, previous brain surgery, heart disease and pacemaker
Take drugs that change a person's cognitive status
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Motor function. Timepoint: Before the first and after last electrical stimulation. Method of measurement: Fugl meyer test.;Brain metabolite activity,. Timepoint: Before the first and after last electrical stimulation. Method of measurement: Metabolite content with Magnetic resonance imaging.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method