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Environmental-perturbation Balance Training Improves Functional Outcomes in Patients With Subacute Stroke
Sponsor: First People's Hospital of Shenyang
Summary
This study innovatively proposes an "environment-perturbation balance training (E-PBT)" intervention, which delivers stable, graded environmental perturbations to keep the challenges within the manageable range. This approach can significantly reduce fear, align with the psychological characteristics of subacute stroke patients, and improve training engagement and safety, thereby filling the current research gap that has insufficiently addressed subacute patients and those with moderate-to-low functional levels. By altering the size and angle of the support surface, this training heightens patients' alertness and psychological adaptability, prompting them to actively integrate sensory information and adjust motor strategies. In turn, this can more effectively reshape internal model of balance control and facilitate genuine neuroadaptive learning in the brain. Moreover, this training more closely mimics real-life fall scenarios, with the aim of directly cultivating the proactive postural control and strategic decision-making abilities required in daily living. This study aims to systematically evaluate the efficacy of this E-PBT intervention on functional recovery in patients during the subacute stage of stroke through a prospective randomized controlled trial, and to explore its potential effects on balance ability, activities of daily living, and overall functional outcomes, thereby providing a more effective and clinically translatable new strategy for post-stroke rehabilitation.
Official title: Environmental-Perturbation Balance Training Improves Functional Outcomes in Patients With Subacute Stroke: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 85 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
0
Start Date
2026-07-20
Completion Date
2027-12-01
Last Updated
2026-08-03
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Environmental-perturbation balance training
The core principle of this training is to deliver standardized, controllable environmental perturbations tailored to the patient's functional level. All perturbations will be administered under safe conditions, following a stepwise "challenge-adapt-rechallenge" progression principle, with the aim of maximizing the patient's active postural control strategies and neuromuscular adaptation, thereby improving balance function and ultimately facilitating the patient's return to home and community life.
Conventional rehabilitation training
Participants in the control group will receive conventional rehabilitation training based on the principles of neuro-developmental therapy (NDT) and motor relearning programme (MRP). The training will include static and dynamic sitting and standing balance, weight shifting, single-leg stance, weight-bearing exercises, core stabilization training, straight-line walking on firm, level ground, and step up and down exercises.
Locations (1)
Shenyang First People's Hospital
Shenyang, Liaoning, China