Introduction. * There is a demand for evidence whether treadmill therapy is more efficient than traditional walking training as an intervention for patients with hemiplegia after cerebral stroke. Design. * A randomized controlled trial. Material. * Stroke patients with moderate to severe functional deficits referred to inpatient medical rehabilitation. Method. * Comparing a treatment group receiving treadmill training with body weight support with a treatment group receiving conventional walking training. Study aim: * Investigate whether treadmill therapy is more effective than traditional functional training in restoring walking and transfer in patients with moderate to severe ambulatory deficits after stroke.
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Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
60
The experimental group received 30 sessions of treadmill therapy with body weight support for a time period of 10 weeks. The conventional group received traditional walking therapy for the same time period.
Department of Brain Injury, Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital
Nesoddtangen, Bjørnemyrveien 11, Norway
Functional Ambulation Categories. Ten meter walking test. Six minutes walking test. Functional Independence Measure (task 9 shorter transfer and task 13 stairs).
Time frame: 0, 5 weeks and 10 weeks.
EU-Walking Index. Time of "Shorter transfer". Time of "Climbing stairs". Performance of climbing stairs. Heart rate registration. * Temporospatial 3D gait data (a sub group analysis). ** Semistructured interview.
Time frame: 0, 5 and 10 weeks, * 0 and 10 weeks, **10 weeks.
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