Clinical trial NCT02619110: The Effect of Backward Walking Treadmill Training on Balance in Patient With Chronic Stroke
Official title: The Purpose of This Study Was to Discuss on the Effects of Backward Walking Treadmill Training on Balance Ability, Speed of Walking and Cardiopulmonary Fitness for Patient With Chronic Stroke
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Stroke
Keywords: Chronic Stroke
cardiopulmonary
Berg Balance Scale (BBS)
Lead sponsor: Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2015-12-02
Enrollment: 30
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 60
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL

Brief summary: The purpose of this research was to discuss the effect of backward walking treadmill training on balance ability, speed of walking and cardiopulmonary fitness in patients with chronic stroke.

Detailed description: Walking training is a good method and strategy to improve postural stability, balance, gait symmetry, and increase walking ability. Generally, there are many walking training theories and methods for patients with chronic stroke and treadmill walking training is applied in recent years. Previous studies showed that patients with stroke improve the walking abilities and speed after the walking treadmill training. However, most studies have demonstrated that forward walking treadmill training improved balance and walking ability in patients with stroke, but fewer studies have investigated the effects on backward walking treadmill training. However, no studies to date have investigated the effects of backward walking treadmill training for patients with chronic stroke.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* This experiment recruited subjects with chronic stroke more than six months, whose level of Brunnstrom stage was beyond IV and who were able to walk more than eleven meters with or without assistive devices

Exclusion Criteria:

Primary outcomes:
measure: The change of Berg Balance Scale (BBS)
timeFrame: Baseline, week 4.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The change of pulmonary function test (PFT): forced vital capacity (FVC) and Forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1)
timeFrame: Baseline, week 4.
Other outcomes:
measure: Timed 10-Meter Walk Test (10 MWT)
timeFrame: 10 minutes
measure: 6-minute walk test (6 MWT)
timeFrame: 6-minute
measure: Up and Go test (TUG)
timeFrame: Baseline, week 4.
Locations:
city: Kaohsiung
country: Taiwan
facility: Kaohsiung Medical University
Study officials:
affiliation: Department of Sports Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University
name: Lan Y Guo, Ph.D
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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citation: Chang KW, Lin CM, Yen CW, Yang CC, Tanaka T, Guo LY. The Effect of Walking Backward on a Treadmill on Balance, Speed of Walking and Cardiopulmonary Fitness for Patients with Chronic Stroke: A Pilot Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 1;18(5):2376. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18052376.