Promoting Recovery Optimization With WALKing Exercise After Stroke

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Conditions studied: Stroke

In brief

Stroke survivors, as a group, are extremely inactive and this has serious consequences for them, including an increased risk of a second stroke and developing other diseases. This study investigates a novel intervention designed to improve everyday activity after stroke by combining walking training to improve walking capacity with a program to encourage more daily walking.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02835313

Run by

University of Delaware

People needed

250

Starts

2016-07-18

Expected to finish

2023-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2024-10-28

Who can join

Age: 21 and older, up to 85. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 21-85
• Chronic stroke (>6 months post stroke)
• Able to walk at self-selected speed without assistance from another person (assistive devices are allowed)
• Self-selected walking speed >0.3 m/s and <1.0 m/s
• Average steps/day <8,000
• Resting heart rate between 40-100 beats per minute
• Resting blood pressure between 90/60 to 170/90.

You may not qualify if…

• Evidence of cerebellar stroke
• Other potentially disabling neurologic conditions in addition to stroke
• Lower limb Botulinum toxin injection <4 months earlier
• Current participation in physical therapy
• Inability to walk outside the home prior to the stroke
• Coronary artery bypass graft, stent placement or myocardial infarction within past 3 months
• Musculoskeletal pain that limits activity
• Inability to communicate with investigators
• score >1 on question 1b and >0 on question 1c on the NIH Stroke Scale.

Where it is running

• University of Delaware — Newark, Delaware, United States

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