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Combined Cognitive and Gait Training (CogGait)

18 de setembro de 2018 atualizado por: VA Office of Research and Development
Recent research in gait training for stroke survivors showed that coordinated gait components can be best restored using the following interventions together: coordination exercises, over ground gait training, and body weight supported treadmill training (BWSTT). These results are important because, to the investigators' knowledge, there have been no other reports of the restoration of coordinated gait components for those with persistent gait deficits (> 6 months after stroke). However, a remaining problem was that the restored coordinated gait movements measured in the laboratory did not generalize for many subjects to the everyday environment. The confluence of several factors can cause lack of generalization. First, dual task performance (gait and cognitive attention task) can degrade both gait and attention ability, even in healthy adults. Second, stroke can impair attention. Third, during walking in the everyday environment, attention is required in order to safely process normally occurring stimuli. Therefore, given the success of the new gait training protocol in the lab setting, it is important to address the problems remaining for generalization of the recovered coordinated gait pattern to the everyday environment. The primary hypothesis of this study is that greater gains in gait speed will be produced by combined motor and cognitive training versus motor training alone.

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Descrição detalhada

Aim 1, Hypothesis Ia: Comparison of combined motor and cognitive training vs motor training alone. For Aim 1, Hypothesis Ia, this will be a randomized, controlled study. For the two groups, 38 subjects will be enrolled and randomized to either: A) Motor + Cognitive Training; or B) Motor Training alone. Subjects will first be stratified according to coordination and gait deficit severity, as described below. After stratification, the subject will be randomized to one of the two intervention groups for Hypothesis Ia. All the subjects will receive treatment 5 times/week, 3hrs/session, for 12 weeks or for a total of 60 treatment sessions. Group A will receive combined motor and cognitive training; Table 2 (below) shows the graduated approach to providing combined gait and cognitive training. Data collection will be at weeks 1, 6, 12, and 24 (i.e., before, mid-treatment and after treatment, and then 3 months after the end of the treatment protocol. Comparison will be made between the two groups to determine whether there was any additive effectiveness of the cognitive training.

Aim 2, Hypotheses IIa-d: Pre/post-treatment comparisons within Group A, receiving combined motor and cognitive training. For Aim 2, Hypotheses IIa-d, this will be a single cohort pre/post-treatment comparison within Group A receiving combined motor and cognitive training.

Aim 3, Hypotheses IIIa-d: Pre/post-treatment comparisons within Group B, receiving motor training alone. For Aim 3, Hypotheses IIIa-d, this will be a single cohort pre/post-treatment comparison within Group B, receiving motor training alone.

Tipo de estudo

Intervencional

Inscrição (Real)

12

Estágio

  • Não aplicável

Contactos e Locais

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Locais de estudo

    • Florida
      • Gainesville, Florida, Estados Unidos, 32608
        • North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System, Gainesville, FL

Critérios de participação

Os pesquisadores procuram pessoas que se encaixem em uma determinada descrição, chamada de critérios de elegibilidade. Alguns exemplos desses critérios são a condição geral de saúde de uma pessoa ou tratamentos anteriores.

Critérios de elegibilidade

Idades elegíveis para estudo

21 anos e mais velhos (Adulto, Adulto mais velho)

Aceita Voluntários Saudáveis

Não

Gêneros Elegíveis para o Estudo

Tudo

Descrição

Inclusion Criteria:

Stroke Survivor inclusion/exclusion criteria Inclusion Criteria

  • Cognition sufficiently intact to give valid informed consent to participate. *
  • Sufficient endurance to participate in rehabilitation sessions.
  • Ability to follow 2 stage commands.
  • Medically Stable
  • Age > 21 years.
  • Impaired ambulation as follows: inability to flex the knee and ankle in the sagittal plane, in a normal manner so the foot clears the floor; inability to control normal knee angle during single limb weight bearing during stance phase.
  • At least 6 months post stroke.

Able-bodied Inclusion criteria

  • Criteria to be included is that they should be healthy with no history of a neurological disease or orthopedic impairment.**
  • Not Pregnant.
  • No Claustrophobia (only for the sub-sample asked to undergo fMRI.)
  • No counterindications to MR scanning including, pregnancy, weight inappropriate for height, ferrous objects within the body (only for the sub-sample asked to undergo fMRI.)

Exclusion Criteria:

Exclusion Criteria

  • Acute or progressive cardiac, vascular, renal, respiratory, neurological disorders or malignancy.
  • Active psychiatric diagnosis or psychological condition, or active drug/alcohol abuse.
  • Lower motor neuron damage or radiculopathy.
  • Orthopedic impairment. **
  • More than one stroke.
  • Cerebellar dysfunction.
  • Fugl-Meyer lower limb motor sub-score greater than 32.
  • No simultaneous gait rehabilitation participation.
  • Pregnant.
  • Claustrophobia (only for the sub-sample asked to undergo fMRI.)
  • Criteria specific to MR scanning, including pregnancy, weight inappropriate for height, ferrous objects within the body (only for the sub-sample asked to undergo fMRI.)

Plano de estudo

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Como o estudo é projetado?

Detalhes do projeto

  • Finalidade Principal: Tratamento
  • Alocação: Randomizado
  • Modelo Intervencional: Atribuição Paralela
  • Mascaramento: Nenhum (rótulo aberto)

Armas e Intervenções

Grupo de Participantes / Braço
Intervenção / Tratamento
Comparador Ativo: Gait plus cognitive training
Rehabilitation of walking/gait, combined with rehabilitation of cognitive function
Treatment will include coordination exercises and over ground gait training for impaired muscle groups and related gait deficits. The therapy will be provided by a clinical physical therapist specializing in rehabilitation for stroke patients, according to established, conventional guidelines. The protocol was used in the investigators' prior studies, and is designed to restore voluntary control of ankle dorsiflexion during swing phase; hip flexion during swing phase, knee flexion at toe-off, knee flexion during swing phase; knee extension before heel strike; knee control during stance phase; pelvic control during stance phase; and whole body balance control during weight shifting. Newly-learned coordinated movements will be integrated into practice of coordinated gait components. Cognitive rehabilitation will begin with the least difficult aspects of attention control, and progress to the more difficult. Home practice and generalization exercises will be assigned.
Cognitive training is designed to enhance attention, intention, executive function, decision making and reaction time. Commercially available computer software will be used, as well as custom cognitive training.
Comparador Ativo: Gait plus arm training
Rehabilitation of walking/gait, combined with rehabilitation of arm function
Treatment will include coordination exercises and over ground gait training for impaired muscle groups and related gait deficits. The therapy will be provided by a clinical physical therapist specializing in rehabilitation for stroke patients, according to established, conventional guidelines. The protocol was used in the investigators' prior studies, and is designed to restore voluntary control of ankle dorsiflexion during swing phase; hip flexion during swing phase, knee flexion at toe-off, knee flexion during swing phase; knee extension before heel strike; knee control during stance phase; pelvic control during stance phase; and whole body balance control during weight shifting. Newly-learned coordinated movements will be integrated into practice of coordinated gait components. Cognitive rehabilitation will begin with the least difficult aspects of attention control, and progress to the more difficult. Home practice and generalization exercises will be assigned.
Treatment will include coordination exercises for reaching and grasping. Activities will include movement of shoulder, elbow, wrist and fingers.

O que o estudo está medindo?

Medidas de resultados primários

Medida de resultado
Descrição da medida
Prazo
Change in the Gait Assessment and Intervention (G.A.I.T.) Score
Prazo: pre-training (0 weeks), post training (about 12 weeks)
Coordination of walking, scored using the investigators' novel G.A.I.T. measure. This measure evaluated limb and joint movements while participants walk overground at preferred speed. Range of scale: 0 (normal) to 64 (extremely discoordinated gait).
pre-training (0 weeks), post training (about 12 weeks)

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Investigadores

  • Investigador principal: Janis J. Daly, PhD MS, North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System, Gainesville, FL

Datas de registro do estudo

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Datas Principais do Estudo

Início do estudo

1 de dezembro de 2013

Conclusão Primária (Real)

1 de junho de 2016

Conclusão do estudo (Real)

1 de junho de 2016

Datas de inscrição no estudo

Enviado pela primeira vez

29 de janeiro de 2015

Enviado pela primeira vez que atendeu aos critérios de CQ

11 de fevereiro de 2015

Primeira postagem (Estimativa)

12 de fevereiro de 2015

Atualizações de registro de estudo

Última Atualização Postada (Real)

11 de fevereiro de 2019

Última atualização enviada que atendeu aos critérios de controle de qualidade

18 de setembro de 2018

Última verificação

1 de setembro de 2018

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