NCT06877338Not yet recruiting
Inspiratory and Trunk Muscle Activity During IMT on Stable and Unstable Surfaces in Stroke Patients
Inspiratory and Trunk Muscle Activity During Inspiratory Muscle Training on Stable and Unstable Surfaces in People After Stroke
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 14 Mar 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study aims to investigate the differences in muscle recruitment of the diaphragm (assessed using ultrasound), the sternocleidomastoid (SCM) and trunk muscles (both measured via surface electromyography (sEMG)), during loaded breathing training performed on both stable and unstable surfaces. The goal is to understand the interaction between the inspiratory and trunk muscles during Inspiratory muscle training (IMT) across these two surface conditions.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 24 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 6 Mar 2025
- Start date
- 15 Mar 2025
- Primary completion date
- 15 Aug 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Hong Kong Metropolitan University
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT06877338
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Planned participants: 24
- From 15 Mar 2025 to the primary completion date, 15 Aug 2025
- No sites listed in no country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Other illness
- Acute myocardial infarction or acute heart failure
- History of chronic respiratory illness or positive clinical signs of impaired respiratory function (such as shortness of breath, hypoxemia, chronic cough, and sputum retention)
- Presence of a nasal feeding tube, tracheal tube, or any condition that prevents the measurement or implementation of the study procedures
Other
- Acute pain in any part of the body
Who the study is looking for
- Age ≥ 40 years and \< 80 years
- Breathing spontaneously
- Clinically diagnosed with ischemic and/or hemorrhagic stroke
- Stroke duration from onset between 1 and 12 months
- No thoracic or abdominal surgery in the past 6 months
- No cognitive impairment (Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score ≥ 26)
- Able to understand and follow verbal instructions
- No facial palsy or only mild facial palsy without limitation of labial occlusion
- Able to complete all loaded breathing tests on both stable and unstable surfaces included in this study
Age in the registry: 40 years to 80 years · Sex: All
Related publications
- Effect of unstable surface during loaded-inspiratory task on diaphragm and trunk muscle activity in stroke patients.Eur J Appl Physiol · 2026 · PMID 41961279
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