Pelvic Obliquity Rehabilitation in Stroke Patients Using Robotically Generated Force Fields
Stopped early · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Gait Re-training in Healthy Subjects, Gait Re-training in Stroke Survivors
In brief
To test the usability and effectiveness of a robotic device, called the Robotic Gait Rehabilitation (RGR) Trainer, in (1) healthy subjects with no gait impairment and (2) patients with stroke with gait abnormalities secondary to impaired knee function.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01684267
- Run by
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
- People needed
- 23
- Starts
- 2012-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2016-05-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-04-05
Who can join
Age: 30 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Can walk comfortably on a treadmill
You may not qualify if…
- any known orthopedic, musculoskeletal, neurological, cardiovascular, pulmonary, or gait disorder that results in an abnormal gait pattern
- Females in the second or third trimester of pregnancy
- STROKE
- Inclusion Criteria:
- single non-traumatic ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke at least 6 months prior to enrollment
- persistent hemiparesis, mild spasticity, and residual mild-to-moderate weakness of the lower extremity
- residual deficits of gait
- be able to ambulate without the use of assistive devices or assistance of a person
- able to walk at a comfortable walking speed of \~0.6 m/s
- able to walk safely on a treadmill
- medically stable
- No other neurological problems, or any known cardiovascular or musculoskeletal disorders that effects their gait or excludes them from exercise
- Exclusion Criteria:
- unable to attend and follow instructions
- require physical assistance for ambulation
- other known orthopedic, musculoskeletal, neurological, cardiovascular, pulmonary, or gait disorder that results in an abnormal gait pattern
- severe joint contractures of the hemi-paretic knee
- females in the second or third trimester of pregnancy
Where it is running
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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