Trunk rehabilitation after stroke: a pilot randomized controlled trial
Verheyden, G., Vereeck, L., Truijen, S., Nieuwboer, A. and De Weerdt, W. (2006) Trunk rehabilitation after stroke: a pilot randomized controlled trial. In, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair: Abstracts of the 4th World Congress for NeuroRehabilitation. Abstracts of the 4th World Congress for NeuroRehabilitation , Sage Publications, 118-119. (doi:10.1177/1545968305284198).
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Description/Abstract
Background: This study examines the effect of additional
trunk activity on trunk performance in subacute stroke patients
in an inpatient rehabilitation setting. Methods: In addition to
usual therapy, subjects randomly allocated to an experimental
group (n = 14) received 4 times a week 30 min of hands-on
trunk therapy, for 5 weeks. Patients in the control group (n = 11)
received no additional therapy. Main outcome measures were
the Trunk Impairment Scale (TIS) total and subscale scores
(static and dynamic sitting balance and trunk coordination). Because
of a significant difference in age between the experimental
and control group, a 2-way ANCOVA analysis was used.
Paired t tests evaluated the evolution in the experimental and
control group separately. Results: A significant effect of additional
trunk therapy was found for the dynamic sitting balance
subscale of the TIS (P = 0.027). When looking at the experimental
and control group separately, significant improvements
were found for the dynamic sitting balance subscale in the experimental
group (P < 0.0001), the coordination subscale in the
experimental (P = 0.022) and control group (P < 0.0001) and the
total TIS score for the experimental (P < 0.0001) and control
group (P = 0.008). Conclusion: This pilot study indicates that there is a potentially beneficial effect of additional trunk rehabilitation
for stroke patients. Clinical practice and stroke research
would benefit from future studies with larger number of
patients and a placebo treatment for the control group.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > Superseded (SOHPRS) |
| Item ID: | 55454 |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jul 2008 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 12:51 |
| Contributors: | Verheyden, G. (Author) Vereeck, L. (Author) Truijen, S. (Author) Nieuwboer, A. (Author) De Weerdt, W. (Author) |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Sage Publications |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/55454 |
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