Wheelchair Indoors Curling With SCI patients_RCT

NCT ID: NCT02550834

Last Updated: 2016-02-24

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: PHASE1/PHASE2
• Total Enrollment: 32 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2015-08-31
• Study Completion Date: 2016-02-29

Brief Summary

This study investigates if, patients with diagnosed chronic spinal cord injury will benefit from an Indoor Curling Exercise program on their control capabilities of trunk movements and on their intrinsic motivation for physical activity. Half of participants will receive 8 training-sessions during 4 weeks, while the other will receive usual care.

Detailed Description

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a catastrophic event that can be devastating and costly in human and social terms. These patients require multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary treatment. Physiotherapy is important factor in SCI rehabilitation.

The objectives of physiotherapists are manifold and include the development of the force of healthy muscles, the teaching of transfer techniques, the maintenance of joint motion and of the body map, and the reestablishment of sitting balance in order for the patients to regain their autonomy.

Maintaining postural stability when seated is a challenge for people with a SCI as their sensory and motor systems in their trunk, lower and upper extremities have been damaged to different degrees. To train this postural stability, physiotherapists include many interventions. Physical activities in sport therapy are some of them. In addition to usual physical activities (basketball, tennis, wheelchair running,…) the investigators propose to practice wheelchair Indoors Curling Exercise with wooden Curling Stones.

Conditions

Spinal Cord Injury

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Experimental : Curling group

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Wheelchair indoors curling training

Intervention Type: OTHER

8x 90 minutes of training and playing indoors curling in 4 weeks

Control : Usual care group

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Wheelchair indoors curling training

8x 90 minutes of training and playing indoors curling in 4 weeks

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Traumatic, non-traumatic or ischemic Spinal Cord Injury with complete or incomplete para- or tetraplegia
• Complete spinal cord status (ASIA Score)
• Sitting capabilities ≥ 4 hours
• Capability to bench 20° forward in trunk flexion
• Signed informed consent after being informed

Exclusion Criteria

• Progressives pathologies
• Problem in vestibular system
• Severely impaired vision
• Tetraplegia without hand function
• Acute pain
• Contraindications on ethical grounds
• Previously reduced capabilities of cooperation
• Know or suspected non-compliance

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Clinique Romande de Readaptation

NETWORK

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Uniklinik Balgrist, Zürich

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

HES-SO Valais-Wallis

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Mittaz Hager Anne-Gabrielle

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Uniklink Balgrist

Zurich, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland

Clinique romande de réadaptation CRR-SUVA

Sion, Valais, Switzerland

Countries

Switzerland

Other Identifiers

44408

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id