Focused Intensive Repeated Stepping During Inpatient Rehabilitation Poststroke
This project is looking at how physical therapy for stroke patients can be improved. It focuses on "Focused, Intensive, Repeated Stepping Training (FIRST)" during inpatient rehabilitation. Researchers want to see if encouraging therapists to prioritize walking practice at higher intensities helps patients recover better. They will monitor current physical therapy practices and then provide training to therapists on these evidence-based methods. Success will be measured by changes in walking ability, specifically using the 10-meter walk test and 6-minute walk test. This project is for people aged 18 to 89 who have had a stroke less than two months ago and can walk more than 50 meters before their stroke. The current status of the project is unclear.
- Study design
- This is an observational study, meaning researchers are watching and learning from current practices and then observing the effects of changes. It aims to include 2000 participants.
- What's involved
- Not specified in the trial record.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Walking ability will be measured at the time of admission and discharge from inpatient rehabilitation, or approximately 20 days later.
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Focused Intensive Repeated Stepping During Inpatient Rehabilitation Poststroke - A Quality Improvement Project
At a glance
Conditions
NCT05393661
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana
Indianapolis, Indianano site contact published
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
Study leadership
- Thomas G Hornby · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Indiana University
Who to contact
This trial hasn't published a contact. View it on ClinicalTrials.gov
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What this trial measures
- Change in 10 meter walk testTime from admission date & discharge date from inpatient rehabilitation. Time frame through inpatient stay completion, an average of 20 days.
Differences in time for individual to ambulate 10 meters (with middle 6 meters timed) with directions "walk at your usual, comfortable pace" from admission and discharge from inpatient rehabilitation
- Change in 6 minute walk testTime from admission date & discharge date from inpatient rehabilitation. Time frame through inpatient stay completion, an average of 20 days.
Differences in distance able to be ambulated during a 6 minute period with directions "cover as much ground as possible" from admission and discharge from inpatient rehabilitation
- Change in 6 minute walk test level of assistanceTime from admission date & discharge date from inpatient rehabilitation. Time frame through inpatient stay completion, an average of 20 days.
Differences in amount of physical assistance provided by physical therapist during 6 minute walk test