Treadmill training to improve mobility for people with sub-acute stroke: a phase II feasibility randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This phase II study investigated the feasibility and potential effectiveness of treadmill training versus normal gait re-education for ambulant and non-ambulant people with sub-acute stroke delivered as part of normal clinical practice.

Design

A single-blind, feasibility randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Four hospital-based stroke units.

Subjects

Participants within three months of stroke onset.

Interventions

Participants were randomized to treadmill training (minimum twice weekly) plus normal gait re-education or normal gait re-education only (control) for up to eight weeks.

Main measures

Measures were taken at baseline, after eight weeks of intervention and at six-month follow-up. The primary outcome was the Rivermead Mobility Index

SUBMITTER: Baer GD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5777545 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature