Measuring stair climbing with wearable sensors in people with movement conditions
Tests a wearable-sensor stair climbing assessment in children and adults with conditions affecting movement.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Implementation and Validation of Instrumented Stair Climb Test
Key facts
- Where
- Bosisio Parini, Milan, and Tradate, ItalySee the 3 sites
AI summary: who the study is looking for
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for healthy people and people with cerebral palsy, leg amputation, Parkinson's disease, stroke or a hip or knee replacement, who can climb and descend 10 steps.
- Age
- 4 to 80 years. Each group has its own age range, from 4-18 years up to 65-80 years.
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Disease stage
- Children with cerebral palsy on one side of the body, with motor skills at levels I to III (GMFCS). Adults with after-effects of stroke on one side of the body. People with Parkinson's disease or Parkinsonism. People with a below-knee amputation who use a prosthesis. People after hip or knee replacement surgery.
- Earlier treatment
- People with a hip or knee replacement must have had the operation (planned or after a fracture). Revision operations are excluded. People with an amputation must be fitted with a leg prosthesis.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Needs help from another person or uses orthoses to climb stairs
- Cannot wear the sensors (accelerometer or electromyograph)
- Health condition that makes stair climbing unsafe, such as NYHA Class IV heart failure, epilepsy not controlled by drugs or serious vision problems
- Cannot follow verbal instructions
- Healthy volunteers with a neurological or orthopaedic condition that impairs mobility
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Could this be for you?
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- Are you between 4 and 80 years old?
Source: NCT06999850, who can take part
Where in Italy
- IRCCS E. MedeaBosisio Parini, ItalyContact: Giovanni Pintabona, MedicineTaking people
- ASP Istituti Milanesi Martinitt e Stelline e Pio Albergo TrivulzioMilan, ItalyContact: Calogero Malfitano, MedicineTaking people
- IRCCS Istituti Clinici Maugeri TradateTradate, ItalyContact: Francesco Negrini, MedicineTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
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- Who runs it
- IRCCS Eugenio Medea
- Trial code
- NCT06999850
- Record updated
- 27 February 2026
- Original description
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.Read full original descriptionShow less
Implementazione e Validazione di un Test Per l'Analisi Del Movimento Della Salita e Discesa Delle Scale Con Sensori Indossabili
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.
Inclusion: 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.
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.