Influence of Kinesio Taping® in Paretic Tibialis Anterior Muscle During Patient Gait and Balance After Stroke

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 7 December 2015
• Main ID: NCT02608294
• Date of registration: 15/11/2015
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
• Public title: Influence of Kinesio Taping® in Paretic Tibialis Anterior Muscle During Patient Gait and Balance After Stroke
• Scientific title: Influence of Kinesio Taping® in Paretic Tibialis Anterior Muscle at Joint Dynamics During Patient Gait and Balance After Stroke: A Pilot Study
• Date of first enrolment: July 2014
• Target sample size: 14
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02608294
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Brazil

Contacts

• Name: Danielly Gomes, B.S.
• Affiliation: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Clinical diagnosis of stroke Ischemic or Hemorrhagic proven by clinical examination
and imaging;

- Stroke with minimal evolution of six months (chronic hemiparetic more than 6 months
after injury);

- Kinetic-functional Diagnostic hemiparesis, spasticity degrees with between 1 and 2 in
Ashworth scale modified for muscle group of ankle plantar flexor;

- People over 21 years;

- What do not use assistive devices while driving;

- Absence of cognitive impairment (Mini-Mental State Examination MMSE - illiterate = 15
points, 1-11 years of schooling = 22 with higher education to 11 years = 27)

Exclusion Criteria:

- Presented range of motion to lowest passive dorsiflexion than 5 degrees;

- If there were missing during the intervention period;

- Presented clinical comorbidities that interfere in the intervention such as high
blood pressure or cardiac arrhythmias

- And submit pathological deformities of the lower limbs or presence of scabs on
malleolus



Age minimum: 21 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Stroke

Intervention(s)

Device: Kinesio Taping

Device: Kinesio Taping Sham

Primary Outcome(s)

Ankle angle during 1 gait cycle [Time Frame: 30 seconds]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Balance [Time Frame: 20 seconds]

Secondary ID(s)

15238913.9.0000.5208

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors