NCT03682666

Kinesiotaping and Constraint Induced Movement Therapy in Subacute Stroke

Completed NA Last updated 23 January 2020

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Kinesiotaping in Stroke in 35 participants. Completed in 10 December 2019.

Timeline

1 October 2018

Primary endpoint
6 November 2019

10 December 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	quadruple
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	35
Start date	1 October 2018
Primary completion	6 November 2019
Estimated completion	10 December 2019
Sites	1 location across Taiwan

Drugs / interventions tested

• Kinesiotaping
• modified Constraint Induced Movement Training
• Sham taping

Conditions studied

• Stroke — all drugs for Stroke →

Sponsor

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Who can join

Adults 18 to 80, any sex, with Stroke. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

In stroke patients, the most common neurological deficits were motor impairment, loss of somatosensation, abnormal muscle tone, and impaired fractionated movement at affected limbs. Therefore, the investigators try to facilitate upper extremity function and normalize the muscle tone to enlarge their capacity to perform daily activities and to improve life quality by modified constraint-induced movement therapy (mCIMT) and Kinesiotaping (KT).

The investigators will collect 90 subacute stroke patients with hemiplegia in this study. These 90 patients will be randomly divided into 3 groups. In KT group (n=30), the patients will perform Kinesiology taping for 5 days per week for 3 weeks. In mCIMT group (n=30), the patient will receive constraint the unaffected limb for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week for three weeks. In KT+mCIMT group, the KT and mCIMT interventions would be performed for 5 days a week in three weeks. All the patients in KT, CIMT and KT+mCIMT groups will receive 20-minute hand function training twice daily for 5 days per week for 3 weeks. Before intervention, immediately and 3 week later after intervention, all patients will receive the physical examinations including motor recovery stage (Brunnstrom stage), spasticity (modified Ashworth scale and Tardieu scale), and sensation. Fugl-Meyer assessment for upper extremity (FMA-UE), box and block test, Simple Test for Evaluating Hand Function (STEF), and Wolf Motor Function Test for hand function, ADL and quality of life assessment and musculoskeletal sonography for affected forearms will be also evaluated in this study.

The aims of this study are:

1. To investigate the effect of Kinesiotaping and modified CIMT in improving upper extremity function and spasticity for subacute stroke patients with hemiplegia.
2. To explore the role of sonoelastography and shear wave velocity in poststroke spasticity assessment.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.