Robotic Locomotor Training in Persons With Multiple Sclerosis
试验速览
- 阶段
- 1 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 38
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Walking Speed as Assessed by 25' Timed Walk
研究概览
简要总结
Locomotor training is a new exercise modality that emphasizes task specificity to promote learning and neural plasticity. It has been reported to improve walking in patients with stroke, spinal cord injury and cerebral palsy. In this study, 40 patients with impaired ambulation due to Multiple Sclerosis will be randomized to receive 36 sessions of either locomotor training or an standard resistive exercise intervention.The locomotor training will be accomplished via a robotic device, the Lokomat, which will move the patient's legs on a treadmill while they are suspended in a harness.
详细描述
In this study, subjects with confirmed diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis were randomized into one of two treatment arms. Subjects in the Lokomat arm trained on the Lokomat with a supervising physical therapist for 20-30 minutes/session 3 times/week. The Lokomat is a robotic exoskeleton which enables the subject to step on a moving treadmill. Subjects were suspended in a harness while in the Lokomat with full to partial body weight support as needed. After the training in the Lokomat, they practiced overground walking for 10 minutes.
The other treatment arm had subjects engage in resistance training with weights and resistance elastic bands matched to the Lokomat group for intensity, duration and frequency. they did not practice overground walking.
Primary outcome measure was speed to accomplish 25' timed walk.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 65 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Persons with Secondary progressive or Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis who are ambulatory with difficulty and /or assistive device
排除标准
- •Unable to ambulate
- •Within 3 months of exacerbation
结局指标
主要结局
Walking Speed as Assessed by 25' Timed Walk
时间窗: at beginning,mid point, end and 12 weeks after intervention
This is the time needed for participant to walk 25 feet. Participant walks on a level surface. the walk from start to finish is timed with a stop watch three measures are done and the average value is entered.
次要结局
- Distance(baseline, mid point, end and 12 weeks after training)
- Fatigue(baseline, mid, completetion, 3 months post)
- PASAT(baseline, mid, completion, 3 months post training)
研究者
Barbara Giesser
Clinical Professor of Neurology
University of California, Los Angeles