Is water-based exercise as effective as land-based exercise in improving walking speed and leg muscle strength in stroke survivors?
- Conditions
- StrokeStroke - HaemorrhagicStroke - Ischaemic
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12618001108202
- Lead Sponsor
- Australian Catholic University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 20
•First time stroke occurred > 3 months prior to enrolment in study
•Community ambulant and able to walk no assistance or with a single stick for 10m
•Deemed medically stable by a general practitioner
•Ability to follow verbal commands
•No significant musculoskeletal impairment that restricts their mobility
•Not currnetly receiving active therapy for gait and mobility post stroke
•Cognitive impairments (Mini-Cog <3)
•Unstable cardiovascular status or general practictioner doesn't consider the person medically well enough to participate
•Additional neurological or orthopaedic disease causing mobility deficits
•Uncontrolled faecal incontinence
•Contagious diseases that contraindicate aquatic exercise eg. acute gastro-intestinal disease such as Noro Virus
•Open/infected wounds that are unable to be covered with a dressing
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method