Sanchez‐Sanchez 2011.
Methods | Design: randomised double‐blind controlled trial |
Participants | "25 patients (mean age 77.20 ± 7.SS) were included in the study and 11 completed the protocol (control group n = 4, target group n = 7)" Inclusion criteria: "Patients over 60 years old who had suffered a single stroke episode with residual hemiparesis, ability to walk before stroke and to be clinically stable enough to begin physiotherapy" Exclusion criteria: "Blindness, prosthetics or significant osteoarthritis of the lower limbs, serious cardiac disease and severe cognitive impairment" |
Interventions | "Control and target groups were treated with conventional physiotherapy for stroke, but we added specific techniques to the target group depending on patient's functional level" |
Outcomes | "Outcome measures were balance on Berg Balance Scale: walking ability on gait speed and HS Functional Ambulation Classification (FACHS), and functional ability on Barthel Index. Assessment was done at baseline, on the fourth and the twelfth week" |
Notes | Abstract only. Clarification of intervention sought but not obtained |