Influences of Cane Use on Voluntary Forward Stepping Movement and Associated Attentional Demands in Hemiplegic Patients

• Conditions: Stroke

• Registration Number: NCT00172146
• Lead Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of cane use on the movement, kinetics, and associated attentional demands of performing a voluntary forward stepping movement in patients with stroke and age-matched healthy adults.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2002-08
• Study Completion: 2003-07
• Status Verified: 2005-09
• Study First Submitted: 2005-09-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2005-09-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2005-09-12
• Study First Posted: 2005-09-15
• Last Update Posted: 2005-09-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 22

Inclusion Criteria

Healthy subjects

• Age ang Sex are correspond with the stroke subjects(between 30 and 75 years old)
• being willing to sign an informed consent approved by the Human Subjects Committee of the National Taiwan University Hospital

Stroke subjects

• between 30 and 75 years old
• stroke confirmed by ICD-10-CM (including I60, I61, I62, I63, I67, and I63.9)
• first stroke with single side hemiplegia and received acute treatment at NTUH
• being willing to sign an informed consent approved by the Human Subjects Committee of the National Taiwan University Hospital
• able to stand independently for 10 minutes and to forward step without ankle-foot orthosis
• Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score at least 24

Excursion criteria:

Healthy subjects

• having other neurological diseases, or moderate to severe neuromuscular or musculoskeletal disorders, or disorders from systematic diseases those would influence the belance or motor ability

Stroke subjects

• having unstable vital sign, unconsciousness, or obvious cognitive, perception, and language impairment, and couldn't communicate with the experimenters
• having other neurological diseases, or moderate to severe neuromuscular or musculoskeletal or cardiovascular disorders, or disorders from systematic diseases those will influence standing ability other than stroke
• having hemi-neglect or hemi-anopia

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy College of Medicine, National Taiwan University; 🇨🇳 Taipei, Province of China, Taiwan