Improving Balance and Walking After Spinal Cord Injury
This study is testing new ways to improve balance and walking for people with spinal cord injury (SCI). Researchers want to see if combining robotic training that gently pushes your pelvis (pelvis perturbation training) with a type of electrical stimulation to the spinal cord (transcutaneous spinal direct current stimulation, or tsDCS) works better than traditional treadmill training. You could be eligible if you are between 18 and 65, have a SCI between C4-T10, and can walk on a treadmill for over 20 minutes. The main goal is to see how much your walking speed improves after 6 weeks of training and then 8 weeks later. The current status of this study is unclear.
- Study design
- This study involves 54 participants and compares three different training groups: robotic training with electrical stimulation, robotic training with a sham (inactive) stimulation, and treadmill training only.
- What's involved
- Not specified in the trial record.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your walking speed will be checked at the end of 6 weeks of training and again 8 weeks after training has finished.
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Improve Dynamic Lateral Balance of Humans With SCI
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Ming Wu, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
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What this trial measures
- Changes in overground gait speed from baselinepost 6 weeks of training and 8 weeks after the end of training
gait speed