Validation of Hand Held Dynamometer for Assessment of Lower Limb Muscle Strength in Multiple Sclerosis

Completed

Conditions studied: Multiple Sclerosis

In brief

Evaluate a method of testing the strength of five key lower limb muscle groups using a hand-held strength gauge (dynamometer).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01749943

Run by

Brown, Theodore R., M.D., MPH

People needed

21

Starts

2012-07-01

Expected to finish

2013-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-08-22

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Stable patients with clinically definite Multiple Sclerosis
• No Multiple Sclerosis exacerbation 30 days prior to screening
• No change in disease modifying therapy for 30 day prior to screening

You may not qualify if…

• Inflammatory myopathy
• Endocarditis, pericarditis o rother unstable heart disease
• Cardiac surgery or myocardial infarction in the last 3 months
• Decompensated congestive heart failure
• Severe aortic stenosis
• Severe pulmonary hypertension
• Pulmonary embolus or infarction in the last 6 months
• Uncontrolled hypertension by history or by screening or baseline diastolic blood pressure >170 or systolic blood pressure >105
• Concomitant neurodegenerative neurological disease such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Parkinsons or hemiplegic stroke
• females who are pregnant
• Cognitive deficits that would interfere with the subjects's ability to give informed consent or preform study testing
• Painful orthopedic condition affecting the lower limbs
• Any other serious and/or unstable medical condition

Where it is running

• MS Center at Evergreen Hospital — Kirkland, Washington, United States

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