Immediate effects of rest periods on balance control in patients after stroke. A randomized controlled pilot trial

• Main Authors: Elsner, Bernhard, Schweder, Simon, Mehrholz, Jan
• Other Authors: Biomed Central,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden 2018
• Subjects: Schlaganfall; Gleichgewicht; Erholung; Rehabilitation; Physiotherapie; Tu Dresden; Publikationsfond; Stroke; Balance; Rest; Physiotherapy; TU Dresden; Publishing Fund; ddc:610; rvk:XA 10000
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-236947; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-236947; http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/23694/s13104-018-3450-2.pdf

Objectives This randomized controlled trial evaluates the effects of two different rest periods between as set of balance exercises after stroke during inpatient rehabilitation. Results Twenty patients after stroke [11 males; mean (SD) age 65.4 (11.5) years; duration of illness 5.3 (3.4) weeks; 16 (80%) left-sided strokes] were randomly allocated into two groups of either a full rest (FR) of 4 min (n = 10) or a short rest (SR) of 1 min between exercise sets (n = 10). Patients improved from baseline until immediately after exercises in one-leg standing time on the affected leg [SR: mean difference 5.1 s (SD 10.3) and FR: 2.0 s (2.4)] and tandem standing time (TST). [SR: 14.9 s (SD 24.6) and FR: 5.7 s (12.0)], but OLST and TST did not differ significantly between groups (p = 0.35 and p = 0.52, respectively). Trial registration The study was registered retrospectively in the German Register of Clinical Trials with the ID: DRKS00013979