Clinical trial NCT05973279: The Relationship Between Lower Limb Functionality, Knee Joint Position Sense, Balance and Falls in Haemiplegic Patients
Official title: The Relationship Between Lower Limb Functionality, Knee Joint Position Sense, Balance and Falls in Haemiplegic Patients
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Conditions: Haemiplegic Patients
Balance
Knee Joint Position Sensation
Lower Limb Functionality
Keywords: Proprioception
Joint Position Sense
Hemiplegia
Lower Limb Functionality
Balance
Fall
Lead sponsor: Karabuk University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Bolu Izzet Baysal Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Training and Research Hospital
First posted: 2023-08-02
Enrollment: 60
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Hemiplegic patients

Brief summary: Stroke is defined as a neurological disorder attributed to acute focal damage of the central nervous system from a vascular cause, including cerebral infarction, intracerebral haemorrhage and subarachnoid haemorrhage. The World Health Organisation defines stroke as a focal and sometimes global impairment of cerebral function that lasts longer than 24 hours or ends in death, develops rapidly, has no demonstrable cause other than a vascular cause. Evaluation of muscle strength and balance ability of affected patients is critical for the recovery of lower extremity motor functions.

Proprioception encompasses various sensory perception modalities such as force, effort, movement and limb position. Impairment of sensory function in patients with haemiplegia can hinder the ability of muscles to recover during walking. Accurate and effective assessment of gait and balance functions and their subsequent improvement is one of the primary goals of stroke rehabilitation programmes. Studies comparing the effects of lower extremity functionality and knee joint position sense on balance and falls are available in various versions in the literature. However, there is no study in which 'Restorative Therapies RT300 leg/arm/cor' device was used to measure functionality, 'Humac Norm Isokinetic Machine' was used to measure knee joint position sense, and 'Tecno Body Prokin Isokinetic Balance System' was used to measure balance in a single simultaneous study. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between lower limb functionality and knee joint position sense with balance and fall parameters in patients with hemiplegia using various devices.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Individuals over 18 years of age
* Volunteering to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

* Hip and knee prosthesis
* Being diagnosed with vertigo
* Having a history of serious neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis except hemiplegia
* Having a previous operation for the lower limb
* Poor co-operation

Primary outcomes:
measure: Balance and knee joint position
timeFrame: First day
measure: Lower extremity functionality and balance
timeFrame: First day
measure: Falling and knee joint position
timeFrame: First day
measure: Lower extremity functionality and falling
timeFrame: First day
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
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Study officials:
affiliation: Izzet Baysal Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Training and Research Hospital
name: Adnan Demirel
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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