Physical fitness training for stroke patients (Review) - Update Software
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Smith 2008 (Continued)<br />
Inclusion criteria: <strong>stroke</strong> in the middle cerebral artery territory more than 3 months but<br />
less than 2 years prior to enrolling in the trial; walking slower than pre-<strong>stroke</strong><br />
Exclusion criteria: cognitive impairment; unable to ambulate; concomitant pathology that<br />
prevented walking on a treadmill<br />
Interventions Intervention: participants in the intervention group received 12 sessions of treadmill <strong>training</strong><br />
(20 minutes each session) over 4 weeks plus weekly calls from the investigator enquiring<br />
about the quality of their week and encouraging them to keep a quality-of-life log. They<br />
wore a standard gait belt on the treadmill and had a practice session prior to the start of the<br />
trial. The starting speed on the treadmill was the speed at which the participant could walk<br />
during the practice session <strong>for</strong> 5 minutes with a rate of perceived exertion (RPE) ≤ 13.<br />
The speed was increased by 0.2 mph each time the participant walked <strong>for</strong> 10 consecutive<br />
minutes with a RPE ≤ 13<br />
Control: participants in the control group received weekly calls from the investigator enquiring<br />
about the quality of their week and encouraging them to keep a quality-of-life log<br />
only<br />
Setting: community-based setting<br />
Outcomes Included outcomes: none<br />
Other outcomes: specific domains of the SIP<br />
Notes Very small sample size. Fitness outcomes not considered.<br />
Risk of bias<br />
Bias Authors’ judgement Support <strong>for</strong> judgement<br />
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not reported<br />
Teixeira 1999<br />
Methods Design: randomised trial of mixed <strong>training</strong> versus no intervention - after usual care<br />
First iteration only of a lag control design; participants randomly allocated to immediate<br />
or delayed - participants allocated delayed intervention initially received no intervention<br />
Randomisation mechanism: unknown; method: unclear (’balanced blocks’)<br />
Allocation concealment: unknown<br />
Blinding: unknown<br />
Intention-to-treat: no<br />
Measurements: end of intervention (10 weeks)<br />
Withdrawals: none<br />
Participants Randomised: 13 participants<br />
Intervention: 6 participants; 1 male and 5 females; age 65.9 years (SD 10.2); 9.15 years<br />
post-<strong>stroke</strong> (SD 12.7)<br />
Control: 7 participants; 1 male and 6 females; age 69.4 years (SD 8.85); 6.4 years post<strong>stroke</strong><br />
(SD 6.2)<br />
All participants had unilateral <strong>stroke</strong> resulting in residual weakness or abnormal muscle<br />
tone or both<br />
<strong>Physical</strong> <strong>fitness</strong> <strong>training</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>stroke</strong> <strong>patients</strong> (<strong>Review</strong>)<br />
Copyright © 2011 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<br />
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