NCT03263455: k-neglect

Kinesio-Taping in Stroke Patients With Visuospatial Neglect

Status unknown NA Last updated 28 August 2017

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Kinesio taping group in Stroke in 50 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

1 September 2017

Primary endpoint
30 November 2017

1 August 2018

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Universita di Verona
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	50
Start date	1 September 2017
Primary completion	30 November 2017
Estimated completion	1 August 2018
Sites	2 locations across Italy

Drugs / interventions tested

• Kinesio taping group
• Sham Taping

Conditions studied

• Stroke — all drugs for Stroke →
• Motor Disorder — all drugs for Motor Disorder →

Sponsor

Universita di Verona — full company profile →

Who can join

Adults 18 to 85, any sex, with Stroke or Motor Disorder. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide and the third most common cause of disability. The effects of stroke are variable and may include impairments in motor and sensory systems, emotion and neuropsychological deficits such as a disorder of spatial awareness known as unilateral spatial neglect (USN). Approaches to ameliorate USN could be categorized in interventions as involving either bottom-up or top-down processing. The specific mechanisms underlying these effects on a number of manifestations of the USN syndrome may include the restoration of defective representations of the side of space contralateral to the lesion (contralesional), and of the ability to orient spatial attention contralesionally, through complex patterns of activation of both the damaged right hemisphere, and the contralateral left hemisphere, with differences related to the specific stimulation delivered to the patient. In recent years, increasing cutaneous stimuli through neuromuscular kinesiotaping has been proposed to enhance somatosensory inputs (24) and such as method could have positive effects on USN. The aim of the present study was to assess the effect of KTM applied on the sternocleidomastoid muscle controlateral side of the lesions in improving USN deficits in individuals with stroke patient in sub-acute phase. The hypothesis is that the KTM application could improved cognitive tests for assessing USN, motor deficits and kinesthetic neck sensibility.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Effects of Neck Taping in the Treatment of Hemispatial Neglect in Chronic Stroke Patients: A Pilot, Single Blind, Randomized Controlled Trial.
   Varalta V, Munari D, Pertile L, Fonte C, et al · · 2019 · cited 5× · PMID 30999679 · DOI 10.3390/medicina55040108