Can thinking while moving help stroke survivors regain balance?
NCT ID NCT07819266
First seen Sep 14, 2026 · Last updated Sep 15, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
Researchers are testing whether a rehabilitation program that combines mental tasks with balance exercises helps stroke survivors who have hemispatial neglect, a condition where the brain ignores one side of the body or space. Participants are randomly assigned to receive either cognitive postural training plus standard balance therapy or standard balance therapy alone, three times a week for four weeks. The trial measures changes in posture, balance, thinking, neglect, and daily independence to see whether adding cognitive challenges improves recovery.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Cognitive postural training, a rehabilitation program that pairs thinking tasks with balance exercises
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could give stroke rehabilitation teams a low-cost way to combine thinking and movement practice, helping survivors with neglect regain balance and independence.
- What could go wrong
- The trial is small and early, so any benefit may be modest or fade. Participants must already be at least six months past their stroke and have mild to moderate neglect, so results may not apply to everyone.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
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- Participants
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About 42 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Sep 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Nov 2026
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- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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45 to 65 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients from both genders with hemispatial neglect due to first ever right cerebral hemisphere stroke (ischemic or hemorrhagic). * Age of participants ranged from 45 to 65 years. * Mild to moderate degree of unilateral spatial neglect according to Catherine Bergego scale.(Appendix VI) * The duration of the stroke was at least six months. * Body mass index ranged from 18.5 - 30 Kg/m2. * Montreal cognitive assessment score more than 21 (Nasreddine, et al., 2005). * Mini mental state examination score between 20 and 24 (Li, et al., 2016). * Grade of spasticity less than two according to Modified Ashworth Scale (Harb and kishner 2022). * Berg balance scale score less than 45 (Miranda-Cantellops, et al., 2022). * Muscle power of lower limbs 3 or more Exclusion Criteria: * 21\) Other brain injuries/illnesses, psychiatric, sever cognitive impairment, severe sensory or proprioceptive loss. 22\) Other causes of cognitive dysfunction. 23) Severe apraxia, severe aphasia. 24) Drugs that affect balance or cognition 25) Ankle disorders (e.g.sprain), vestibular disorder 26) ophthalmic disorders, homonymous hemianopsia 27) Progressive neurological disease (e.g., dementia)
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Locations
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The out patient clinic Faculty of physicaltherapy Cairo university
Giza, Egypt
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