Physical fitness training for stroke patients (Review) - Update Software

AMBULATE (Continued)
Outcomes Primary outcome measures: 10-metre walk speed, 6-minute walk distance
Secondary outcome measures: falls, self-efficacy of community ambulation, Adelaide Activites Profile, Euro-
QOL
Timepoint: measured at baseline, 2 months, 4 months, 6 months and 12 months
Starting date Start: 27 April 2007
Contact information Associate Professor Louise Ada, Discipline of Physiotherapy Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney,
PO Box 170, Lidcombe NSW 1825, Australia
Tel: +61 2 93519544, Fax: +61 2 93519278, Email: L.Ada@usyd.edu.au
Notes ACTRN12607000227493
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Trial name or title Does intensive task specific training improve balance after acute stroke?
Methods Randomised clinical trial
Participants 62 participants
Inclusion criteria: admitted to the stroke unit with a diagnosis of stroke; living in the city of Trondheim;
included 4 to 14 days after first sign of symptoms; Modified Rankin Scale > 3 before admission to hospital;
Scandinavian Stroke Scale (SSS) less than 58 points and more than 14 points; SSS leg item less than 6 points
or SSS movement item less than 12 points; discharged to home or a rehabilitation clinic; Mini Mental State
Examination score more than 20 points; able and willing to provide informed consent
Exclusion criteria: serious heart and lung diseases; other diseases which makes it difficult to evaluate the
function; already included in the trial
Interventions Intervention: intensive task specific balance training (physical therapy technique and exercises) 3 days/week
for 4 weeks then 1 day/week for 8 weeks plus usual physical therapy
Control: usual physical therapy alone
Outcomes Primary outcome measures: Berg Balance Scale
Secondary outcome measures: Mini Mental State Examination; Scandinavian Stroke Scale (SSS); Motor
Assessment Scale; Timed Up and Go
Step Test; walking speed; Barthel Index; Modified Rankin Scale; Fall Efficacy Scale; Stroke Impact Scale
Time frame: inclusion 1, 3 and 6 months follow up
Starting date Start: April 2004
Completion: April 2008
Contact information Associate Professor Bent Indredavik, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Notes Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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