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Sensorimotor Integration Underlying Balance Control in Individuals With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury

6 janvier 2022 mis à jour par: Dorothy Barthélemy, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal

Sensorimotor Integration Underlying Balance Control in Individuals With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: Assessing Neural Changes After the Injury and Promoting Recovery Through Specific Training

The objectives of the study are to evaluate a 4-week mixed training paradigm consisting of explosive strength training and balance perturbation training efficacy on balance control during standing and locomotion, and to understand the mechanisms of neuroplasticity that would improve sensorimotor integration at supraspinal and spinal levels.

Aperçu de l'étude

Description détaillée

After obtaining their consent, participants will undertake evaluations at different times:

  1. Assessment 1 week prior to training
  2. Training over 4 weeks (nature of the training depends on the group)
  3. Assessment 1 week after training
  4. Assessment 1 month after training (follow-up)

Each assessment will be divided in 2 sessions and data will be collected over 2 days, at one session per day. Days can be consecutive or non-consecutive but will be within a given week. The assessment consists of:

  • Session 1 (S1; duration: 3h) will include presentation of the Study and obtainment of consent, clinical tests, galvanic vestibular stimulation testing, postural reactions and gait assessment.
  • Session 2 (S2; duration: 3h) will include muscle strength, short-afference inhibition, paired pulse and trans cranial magnetic stimulation conditioning of H reflex.

After the initial assessment, iSCI participants will be separated in 2 groups and will receive combination of explosive strength and balance training or no intervention. The training will span over 12 sessions (3 times per week for 4 weeks) and each training session will last approximately 1h (including effective training and installation periods).

Type d'étude

Interventionnel

Inscription (Anticipé)

36

Phase

  • N'est pas applicable

Contacts et emplacements

Cette section fournit les coordonnées de ceux qui mènent l'étude et des informations sur le lieu où cette étude est menée.

Coordonnées de l'étude

Lieux d'étude

    • Quebec
      • Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Critères de participation

Les chercheurs recherchent des personnes qui correspondent à une certaine description, appelée critères d'éligibilité. Certains exemples de ces critères sont l'état de santé général d'une personne ou des traitements antérieurs.

Critère d'éligibilité

Âges éligibles pour étudier

18 ans et plus (Adulte, Adulte plus âgé)

Accepte les volontaires sains

Non

Sexes éligibles pour l'étude

Tout

La description

FOR PARTICIPANTS WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Have an incomplete lesion of spinal cord
  • Level of spinal cord lesion between C5 and T12
  • At least, 6 months post-injury
  • Be considered as AIS C or D
  • Be able to stand without support for 15 seconds
  • Be able to provide informed consent in English or in French

Exclusion Criteria:

  • To have cognitive deficits
  • To have personal or family history of epilepsy
  • To have suffered moderate or severe traumatic brain injury
  • To have cochlear implant

FOR CONTROL PARTICIPANTS

Exclusion Criteria:

  • To have orthopedics problems
  • To have cognitive deficits
  • To have neurological problems

Plan d'étude

Cette section fournit des détails sur le plan d'étude, y compris la façon dont l'étude est conçue et ce que l'étude mesure.

Comment l'étude est-elle conçue ?

Détails de conception

  • Objectif principal: Traitement
  • Répartition: Non randomisé
  • Modèle interventionnel: Affectation parallèle
  • Masquage: Aucun (étiquette ouverte)

Armes et Interventions

Groupe de participants / Bras
Intervention / Traitement
Expérimental: Combined explosive strength and specific balance training group
This group will be formed with participants with incomplete spinal cord injury. This group will perform 4 weeks of combined explosive strength and specific balance training.

Training will consist to perform one hour of combined ankle explosive strength training and specific balance training using randomized perturbations.

Explosive strength training: Participants will perform only 2 sets of 3 min (12 contractions for each set) for both lower limbs and both ankle plantar- and dorsiflexion movements.

Balance specific training: Participants will be standing, secured by an adjusted harness, which do not support the weight but is strictly there to prevent a fall. They will have online visual feedback of their CoP via an avatar on the screen in front of them. Each training session will consist of 10 sequences of 3 min, including the 5 different conditions:

  • Forward tilt of base of support;
  • Backward tilt of base of support;
  • Translation forward;
  • Translation backward;
  • Without moving their feet, participants will have to move their avatar to reach different targets placed around them on the screen, at different distance from the center.
Aucune intervention: Spinal cord injury control group
This group will be formed with participants with incomplete spinal cord injury. They will perform all the evaluation before and after a 4-week period of rest (no training).
Aucune intervention: Healthy control group
Healthy participants will be recruited based on the age and sex of the participants with incomplete spinal cord injury to realize clinical and neurophysiological cortical evaluations.

Que mesure l'étude ?

Principaux critères de jugement

Mesure des résultats
Description de la mesure
Délai
Change in muscles EMG responses following balance perturbation
Délai: Pre-intervention, immediately after and one-month after intervention
Evaluation of the latency on Soleus and Tibialis anterior muscles EMG following backward and forward perturbations will be done.
Pre-intervention, immediately after and one-month after intervention
Change in center of pressure displacement following balance perturbation using a force platform
Délai: Pre-intervention, immediately after and one-month after intervention
Excursion of centre of pressure will be analyzed following forward and backward perturbation.
Pre-intervention, immediately after and one-month after intervention
Change in ankle muscle strength using force transducer
Délai: Pre-intervention, immediately after and one-month after intervention
Evaluation of isometric dorsi- and planti-flexors muscle strength in Newton will be done using a force transducer attached to the participant's feet.
Pre-intervention, immediately after and one-month after intervention

Mesures de résultats secondaires

Mesure des résultats
Description de la mesure
Délai
Change in intracortical mechanisms using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
Délai: Pre-intervention, immediately after and one-month after intervention
A paired-pulses paradigm (two trans cranial magnetic stimulations at motor cortex level) will be used to evaluate the intracortical mechanisms
Pre-intervention, immediately after and one-month after intervention
Change in the influence of peripheral afferents on cortical output using short-afference inhibition
Délai: Pre-intervention, immediately after and one-month after intervention
A stimulation (using TMS) at motor cortex level will be triggered just after a peripheral electrical stimulation of tibial nerve to evaluate the peripheral afferents on cortical output.
Pre-intervention, immediately after and one-month after intervention
Change in the modulation of the H reflex by the corticospinal tract
Délai: Pre-intervention, immediately after and one-month after intervention
A stimulation (using TMS) at motor cortex level will be triggered just before a tibial nerve stimulation to evaluate the modulation of the H reflex by the corticospinal tract.
Pre-intervention, immediately after and one-month after intervention
Change in EMG responses following vestibular stimulations during quiet standing
Délai: Pre-intervention, immediately after and one-month after intervention
Galvanic vestibular stimulation will be triggered during quiet standing. EMG responses of Soleus and Tibialis Anterior muscles will be analyzed.
Pre-intervention, immediately after and one-month after intervention
Change in the excursion of the center of pressure following vestibular stimulations
Délai: Pre-intervention, immediately after and one-month after intervention
Galvanic vestibular stimulation will be triggered during quiet standing. The displacement of the center of pressure will be analyzed using a force platform.
Pre-intervention, immediately after and one-month after intervention

Autres mesures de résultats

Mesure des résultats
Description de la mesure
Délai
MOntreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score
Délai: Before enrollment
The maximal score is 30 and minimal score 0.
Before enrollment

Collaborateurs et enquêteurs

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Dates d'enregistrement des études

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Dates principales de l'étude

Début de l'étude (Réel)

9 juillet 2018

Achèvement primaire (Anticipé)

1 décembre 2022

Achèvement de l'étude (Anticipé)

1 décembre 2022

Dates d'inscription aux études

Première soumission

1 septembre 2021

Première soumission répondant aux critères de contrôle qualité

6 janvier 2022

Première publication (Réel)

20 janvier 2022

Mises à jour des dossiers d'étude

Dernière mise à jour publiée (Réel)

20 janvier 2022

Dernière mise à jour soumise répondant aux critères de contrôle qualité

6 janvier 2022

Dernière vérification

1 janvier 2022

Plus d'information

Termes liés à cette étude

Informations sur les médicaments et les dispositifs, documents d'étude

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Non

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Non

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