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- Clinical Trial NCT03205527
Perturbation Training for Fall-risk Reduction Among Stroke Survivors
Perturbation Training for Enhancing Stability and Limb Support Control for Fall-risk Reduction Among Stroke Survivors
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Approximately 800,000 Americans suffer a stroke every year and 689,450 reported having short and long-term disabilities leading to dependence in activities of daily living. It has been reported that stroke survivors experienced detrimental falls each year and most occurring during walking. The likelihood of experiencing a fall upon discharge from rehabilitation being significantly higher than during the rehabilitative phase. Falls resulting from environmental perturbations such as slips contribute to a significant percentage of these falls. Hence, it is important to develop innovative and effective paradigms for fall-risk reduction in chronic as well as sub-acute stroke survivors. The purpose of this research is to understand the effect of bilateral slip-perturbation training protocol targeting training both paretic vs. non-paretic limbs on fall-risk reduction and prevention. Also, to find its effect on increasing community ambulation in community dwelling stroke survivors.
Participants in this study will be individuals with chronic (> 6 months) hemiparesis following stroke or individuals with sub-acute stroke (> 6weeks and < 6 months), ambulatory (with or without assistive device) and more than 21 years of age. Subjects will be screened for the inclusion criteria. If subjects pass the screening, they will go through the full clinical balance assessment and laboratory dynamic stability test. The chronic stroke survivors will be randomized into two groups: - Group A: Slip training group; Group B: Control group. While, the sub-acute stroke survivors will be randomized into two groups: - Group C: Slip training group; Group D: Control group.
For the slip training groups (A and C), all subjects' normal walking pattern and their recovery responses to slip will be recorded with a motion tracking system (including videotaping) while they walk across an instrumented area along a straight path in the lab. A slip will be induced after a subject steps on a low-friction platform.
For the chronic stroke subjects, baseline activity monitoring using wearable sensors will be performed for up to four weeks prior to the training session followed by activity monitoring for 12 months. While for the sub-acute stroke subjects, it would be done for 6 months.
For groups A and B, the follow-up stability test will be at 6 and 12 months post-training session, which will consist only of one slip induced on the training side and contralateral side. For groups C and D, follow-up session is 6 months post training session.
Incidence of falls and physical activity will be monitored between training and re-test sessions through falls, activity monitoring-questionnaire to describe details of the falls and through the wearable sensors for groups A, B, C and D.
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Shamali Dusane, MPT
- Phone Number: 3123552735
- Email: sdusan2@uic.edu
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Yiru Wang, MS PT
- Phone Number: 3123553988
- Email: ywang327@uic.edu
Study Locations
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Illinois
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Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
- Recruiting
- University of Illinois at Chicago
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Contact:
- Yiru Wang, MS PT
- Phone Number: 3123553988
- Email: ywang327@uic.edu
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Contact:
- Shamali Dusane, MPT
- Phone Number: 312-355-2735
- Email: sdusan2@uic.edu
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects will have to be ambulatory (with or without assistive device) with self-reported chronic (> 6 months) stroke-induced hemiparesis confirmed by participants' physician and medically cleared. Evidence of unilateral brain lesion confirmed by an imaging study (e.g. CT or MRI).
- Subjects with no other acute and significant neurological, cardiopulmonary, musculoskeletal or systemic diagnosis or have undergone a recent major surgery (<6 months) or hospitalization (<3 months) and not on any sedative drugs
- Ability to walk at least 10m with or without assistive device which includes use of ankle orthosis or functional electrical stimulation devices (which is equivalent to having a score of> 4, dependent supervision on Functional Ambulatory category scale)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Severe osteoporosis (Ultrasound score < -2)
- Cognitive impairment (Mini Mental State Exam score<25)
- Aphasia (<71% on Mississippi Aphasia Screening Test)
- Severe depression ( > 15 on Geriatric Depression Scale)
- Severe obesity (BMI >35Kilogram/m2)
- Complains of shortness of breath, or uncontrolled pain (> 3/10 on VAS), or if pulse oxygen drops <92% on the 6 minute walk test (for endurance)
- Uncontrolled hypertension (resting systolic blood pressure > 165 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure > 110mmHg)
- Resting heart rate > 85% of age-predicted maximal heart rate
- Resting oxygen saturation <95%
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Slip training for chronic stroke
Chronic stroke subjects in this training group will receive bilateral overground, slip perturbation training.
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Slips will be induced by a low-friction platform (65×30×0.6
cm, μ<0.05) embedded side-by-side in the walking path, set nearly flush with the floor surround.
The moveable platform, mounted on top of a pair of force platforms (AMTI, Newton, MA) for measuring ground reaction forces is firmly locked in a stationary position.
An unannounced release occurs at heel strike of the perturbed, without the knowledge of subject, after which the platform is free to slide up to 150 cm.
The mechanical release is controlled by the loading on the force platforms and the computer.
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No Intervention: Control for chronic stroke
Chronic stroke subjects, after baseline walking trials, will walk for about 30 trials at their preferred walking pace to match the total trials the other groups receive before receiving a single slip each randomly on their non-paretic and paretic sides.
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Experimental: Slip training for sub-acute stroke
Sub-acute stroke survivors in this training group will receive bilateral overground, slip perturbation training.
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Slips will be induced by a low-friction platform (65×30×0.6
cm, μ<0.05) embedded side-by-side in the walking path, set nearly flush with the floor surround.
The moveable platform, mounted on top of a pair of force platforms (AMTI, Newton, MA) for measuring ground reaction forces is firmly locked in a stationary position.
An unannounced release occurs at heel strike of the perturbed, without the knowledge of subject, after which the platform is free to slide up to 150 cm.
The mechanical release is controlled by the loading on the force platforms and the computer.
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No Intervention: Control for sub-acute stroke
Sub-acute stroke subjects, after baseline walking trials, will walk for about 30 trials at their preferred walking pace to match the total trials the other groups receive before receiving a single slip each randomly on their non-paretic and paretic sides.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in laboratory induced falls
Time Frame: Pre-training, immediate post-training, 6-month post training, 12-month post training
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Perturbation is induced successfully and safely to reproduce inadvertent falls in a protective laboratory environment.
Falls will be measured by amount of force recorded on the load cell attached to the ceiling mounted safety harness system donned by the participant.
Instability of the body's COM and poor limb support prior to touchdown of the recovery step account for 90~100% of subsequent falls (occurring ~500ms later) in both sit-to-stand-slip and in gait-slip, in the laboratory settings.
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Pre-training, immediate post-training, 6-month post training, 12-month post training
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Change in real life falls
Time Frame: Retrospectively assessed via participant history for 12 months before pretest and prospectively assessed for 12 months post training via falls diary
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Real life falls are measured to determine if training effect can be translated into everyday real life setting.
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Retrospectively assessed via participant history for 12 months before pretest and prospectively assessed for 12 months post training via falls diary
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Stability
Time Frame: Pre-training, immediate post-training, 6-month post training, 12-month post training
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Stability is defined by both the position of a person's center-of-mass (COM) with respect to his or her base-of-support (BOS) and it's velocity.
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Pre-training, immediate post-training, 6-month post training, 12-month post training
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Change in Limb support
Time Frame: Pre-training, immediate post-training, 6-month post training, 12-month post training
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The inability to provide timely limb support due to insufficient amount of upward impulse generated from the ground reactive force can cause limb collapse, as characterized by the quotient of amount and rate of hip descent (Vhip/Zhip) measured from hip height and lead to an eventual fall.
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Pre-training, immediate post-training, 6-month post training, 12-month post training
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Change in gait speed
Time Frame: Pre-training, 6-month post training, 12-month post training
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Gait speed will be computed from an average of three walking trials on the laboratory walkway.
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Pre-training, 6-month post training, 12-month post training
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Change in symmetry
Time Frame: Pre-training, 6-month post training, 12-month post training
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Symmetry will be computed from an average of three walking trials on the laboratory walkway.
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Pre-training, 6-month post training, 12-month post training
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Change in gait speed during functional ambulation
Time Frame: One month before pretest till prospectively 12 months post training
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The gait speed for each day will be calculated by patient's wearable sensor and their assistive device sensor.
This parameter will be used to analyze improvement in ambulatory skills of the patient and decrease reliance on the assistive device.
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One month before pretest till prospectively 12 months post training
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Change in physical activity
Time Frame: One month before pretest till prospectively 12 months post training
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The total number of steps and distance for each day will be calculated by patient's wearable sensor and their assistive device sensor.
This parameter will be used to analyze improvement in physical activity of the patient and decrease reliance on the assistive device.
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One month before pretest till prospectively 12 months post training
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Tanvi Bhatt, PhD PT, University of Illinois at Chicago
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Dusane S, Bhatt T. Can prior exposure to repeated non-paretic slips improve reactive responses on novel paretic slips among people with chronic stroke? Exp Brain Res. 2022 Apr;240(4):1069-1080. doi: 10.1007/s00221-021-06300-8. Epub 2022 Feb 1.
- Gangwani R, Dusane S, Wang S, Kannan L, Wang E, Fung J, Bhatt T. Slip-Fall Predictors in Community-Dwelling, Ambulatory Stroke Survivors: A Cross-sectional Study. J Neurol Phys Ther. 2020 Oct;44(4):248-255. doi: 10.1097/NPT.0000000000000331.
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
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Study Completion (Anticipated)
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First Submitted
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Study Record Updates
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Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 2016-0933
- 1R01HD088543-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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