Understanding Different Parameters in Locomotor Training (a Type of Walking Training) for Person After a Stroke

Completed

Conditions studied: Stroke

In brief

This is a research study to understand how people who have experienced a stroke walk in order to develop better and more effective types of therapy. Data collected from people who have experienced a stroke and healthy individuals will be used to compare a neurologically healthy person to someone, which has sustained an injury.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00712179

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

49

Starts

2008-07-01

Expected to finish

2013-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-05-13

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 85. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• adults at least 18 years old;
• able to provide informed consent;
• able to follow three-step motor command;
• have a single unilateral stroke;
• medically stable (i.e. asymptomatic for bladder infection, decubiti, osteoporosis, cardiopulmonary disease, pain, or other significant medical complications that would prohibit or interfere with walking;
• able to stand with assistance and/or ambulate 15 meters with or without an assistive device or brace and no greater than standby physical assistance.

You may not qualify if…

• weight > 300 pounds due to limitations in body weight support systems;
• body size which is incompatible with harnesses;
• pregnancy;
• presence of significant musculoskeletal problems that limit hip and knee extension or ankle plantarflexion to neutral;
• self selected walking speed below 0.3 m/s; and
• history of congestive cardiac failure, unstable angina, or peripheral vascular disease.

Where it is running

• North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System — Gainesville, Florida, United States

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