Clinical trial NCT03791671: Balance Training After Stroke - a Randomized, Controled Pilot Study
Official title: Individual Balance Training vs. Group Balance Training to Improve Walking Speed Post Stroke - a Randomized, Controled Pilot Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Stroke
Keywords: Balance training
Gait Speed
Lead sponsor: RehaClinic AG
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-01-03
Enrollment: 7
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: There will be a intervention group and a control group. Both groups do active treatment. In the intervention group they will have individual balance training and in the control group they will have balance training in a group from 3-6 persons. But both groups will do the same balance program.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This pilot study is part of a master's thesis. In the rehabilitation of stroke patients should be compared whether individual balance training has a greater effect than group balance training. The result is determined based on the walking speed.

Detailed description: The RehaClinic Kilchberg is a neurological rehabilitation facility with the phases B-D. Between February and the end of March, out of 78 patients, 71% of the patients had a stroke. Therefore, my choice of topic for the Master's thesis fell on balance training of patients after a stroke. The duration of the study is based on the timetable for the Master's thesis. Initially, 20 stroke patients will be recruited. When the number is reached, the study is completed to begin descriptive statistics and analyze potential BIAS.

Deficits in the vestibular, visual, motor, and / or somatosensory systems lead to falls in the first 6 months after the stroke. This affects approximately 46% of patients. But also cognitive processes, such as attention and concentration. Therefore, the treatment must be adapted to the respective strategy of the patient. If the patient increasingly uses the visual system, the therapy has to work a lot with the eyes closed. In turn, if he uses more of the sensorimotor system is increasingly trained with unstable documents. After this system, the balance program was set up. It is the same for the intervention and control group to make a difference between individual and group training.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* stroke starting from Rehabilitation phase B
* ability to understand therapy instructions
* walkable with aids

Exclusion Criteria:

* Neurodegenerative disease
* non-stroke dizziness
* cardiopulmonary insufficiency
* polyneuropathy
* peripheral vascular disease

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change of the walking speed at three weeks
timeFrame: Measurement one day before and one day after the three weeks intervention time, Data analysis through study completion
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change of the balance score at three weeks
timeFrame: Measurement one day before and one day after the three weeks intervention time, Data analysis through study completion
measure: Change of the Walking ability (walking aid) at three weeks
timeFrame: Measurement one day before and one day after the three weeks intervention time, Data analysis through study completion
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Kilchberg
country: Switzerland
facility: RehaClinic Kilchberg
state: Zurich
Study officials:
affiliation: Donauuniversität Krems (Danube University)
name: Yvonne Teuschl, Ass.-Prof.
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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