NCT06999850Recruiting
Implementation and Validation of Instrumented Stair Climb Test
Implementazione e Validazione di un Test Per l'Analisi Del Movimento Della Salita e Discesa Delle Scale Con Sensori Indossabili
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 27 Feb 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The aim of this study is to design an instrumented test for the evaluation of the climb of stairs. In particular, the main purpose is to characterize and compare the performance of subjects, both pediatrics and adults, with different pathologies (cerebral palsy, amputee, Parkinson's disease, stroke and arthroplasty) in carrying out the instrumented test of climbing and descending stairs. This would provide potentially useful information to complement the clinical assessment, including investigating the existence of correlations between the instrumental data obtained and the clinical scales collected. The secondary objective is to evaluate, in a first phase of the study, the feasibility and reliability of the test, analyzing the validity of the indices obtained in terms of intra- and inter-operator reliability on healthy subjects.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 64 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 22 May 2025
- Start date
- 4 Apr 2025
- Primary completion date
- 4 Apr 2026
- Lead sponsor
- IRCCS Eugenio Medea
- Diseases
- Stroke, Parkinson disease
- NCT number
- NCT06999850
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 64
- From 4 Apr 2025 to the primary completion date, 4 Apr 2026
- 3 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Who the study is looking for
- age 4-80 years (8 subjects 4-18 years; 8 subjects 19-65 years; 8 subjects 65-80 years);
- absence of diagnosis of neurological or orthopaedic pathologies, which impair the patient's mobility.
- age range 4-18 years;
- Diagnosis of Infantile Cerebral Palsy;
- right or left hemiparesis;
- ability motor skills in levels I - III according to the GMFCS (Gross Motor Function Classification System).
- Age 65-80 years;
- postoperative postoperative hip or knee arthroplasty (in election and post-fracture, any revisions will be excluded).
- age range from 19 to 80 years;
- Leg amputation (trans-tibial), fitted with limb prosthesis.
- age range from 65 years;
- diagnosis of Parkinson's disease or Parkinsonism also on a vascular basis.
- Age 65-80 years;
- Aftereffects of Ictus Cerebri;
- left or right hemiparesis.
Criteria the registry did not label
- Common inclusion criteria for all groups:
- \- Ability to climb and descend 10 steps with supervision, even with handrail support.
- Common exclusion criteria for all groups:
- Need for help from an operator or use of orthoses to make the stairs;
- Inability to dress the instrumentation (accelerometer/electromyograph);
- clinical condition that does not recommend the execution of scales (e.g. NYHA Class IV cardiovascular decompensation, epilepsy not controlled by drugs, serious visual disturbances...);
- inability to follow verbal instructions.
Age in the registry: 4 years to 80 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (3)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| IRCCS E. Medea Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bosisio Parini | Italy | Recruiting |
| ASP Istituti Milanesi Martinitt e Stelline e Pio Albergo Trivulzio Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Milan | Italy | Recruiting |
| IRCCS Istituti Clinici Maugeri Tradate Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tradate | Italy | Recruiting |
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