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Cerebrovascular AccidentPhase 3NCT02586142

Botulinum Toxin Injections by Ultrasounds Guidance and Stretching Exercise in Spastic Toe Clawing

A Phase 3 study testing Botulinum Toxin Type A and Stretching exercise in people with Cerebrovascular Accident, run by Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at 1 site in Taiwan.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

Official record
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Trial summary

Claw toes deformity result in spasticity often seem in patients with central nerve disease. It also cause pressure sore in foot and pain during walking that didn't well improve under traditional treatment. There are few relative reports about the Botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) injection on claw toe. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Any age
Conditions the study is for
Cerebrovascular Accident
What is being tested?
Botulinum Toxin Type A and Stretching exercise
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
30 participants
Where
1 siteTaiwan
Study dates
Aug 2010to Jul 2013
Phase
Phase 3
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages Any age
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Patient with spasticity toe clawing(metatarsophalange jointextension, proximal and distal phalange joint flexion)
  • MAS scale of metatarsophalange joint and interphalangeal joint more than 2
  • Pain during walking, abnormal gait patterns and can't wear shoess due to claw toe
  • Haven't received botox or phenol or alcohol injections before

Who cannot join

  • Lower extremities joint contrature, bone deformity
  • Had received botox injections or phenol injections or before due to lower extremities spasticity
  • Combine other neuromuscular system disease
  • Severe cognition disorder or aphasia after stroke
  • Significant atrophy of flexor digitorum longus and brevis
  • Allergy to botox
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  • Infection on injection site
  • Have systemic infection
  • Now accept aminioglycoside or other medicine will affect neuromusclar transition

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Taiwan1 site
  • Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

    Kaohsiung City

Other trials in Taiwan

About this study

Claw toes deformity result in spasticity often seem in patients with central nerve disease. It also cause pressure sore in foot and pain during walking that didn't well improve under traditional treatment. There are few relative reports about the Botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) injection on claw toe. The investigators' study has two main purposes:

  1. assess the efficiency of BTX-A injection under ultrasonographyic guidance on improving lower extremities function, pain and spasticity in patients with symptomatic claw toes.
  2. assess if regular stretching exercise can strength the efficiency of BTX-A injection on improving lower extremities function, pain and spasticity.
Read the detailed description

The investigators will enroll 50 hemiplegic stroke patients met the inclusion criteria(onset more than 6 month, lower extremity Brunnstrome stage more than stage IV, walking without assistance devices and pain during walking due to claw toe. The investigators will focus and inject BTX-A with ultrasonographyic guidance on flexor digitorum longus and brevis(both 50 unit). If patients combine ankle plantar flexors spasticity, the investigators will inject another 50 unit on both the medial and lateral head of gastrocnemius . Every patients will receive regular stretching exercise in hospital and do self stretching exercise at home for 3 months after injection. Patients will be evaluated at 2 weeks, 4 weeks and 12 weeks, 24 weeks and 1 year after injection. Outcome measure include severity of spasticity and pain, sensory and motor function, range of motion, functional assessment of lower extremity and analyze pressure under foot.

Being tested
Botulinum Toxin Type A, Stretching exercise
Keywords
spasticity, claw toe, ultrasounds guidance, botulinum toxin, stretching exercise
Medical subject headings
Stroke, Muscle Spasticity, Hammer Toe Syndrome

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Botulinum Toxin Type ADrug

    Also called Botulinum toxin

    To inject Botulinum toxin type A on the spasticity lower extremity for stroke patients by ultrasounds guidance.

  • Stretching exerciseOther

    After accepting Botulinum toxin type A injection, participants will be arranged to receive stretch exercise in Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital 3 times per week, for 3 month.

Study groups in NCT02586142
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Botulinum toxin type A(BTX-A) injectionExperimentalTo inject Botulinum toxin type A on the spasticity lower extremities for participants by ultrasounds guidance.
Receives: Drug: Botulinum Toxin Type A
BTX-A injection plus stretching exerciseActive comparatorInject Botulinum toxin type A on the spasticity lower extremity for participants by ultrasounds guidance. After injection, arrange them to receive stretching exercise in Kaoshiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital 3 time per week for 3 months.
Receives: Drug: Botulinum Toxin Type A; Other: Stretching exercise

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Spasticity severity scale

    patients will be evaluated at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and 1 year after injection 0=none, 1=mild, 2= median, 3=severe

    Measured: Change from Baseline data at 1 year

Secondary outcomes (14)
  1. Sensory function scale

    patients will be evaluated at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and 1 year after injection 0=no feeling, 1=abnormal, 2= normal

    Measured: Change from Baseline data at 1 year

  2. Brunnstrome stage

    patients will be evaluated at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and 1 year after injection

    Measured: Change from Baseline data at 1 year

  3. Manual muscle test

    patients will be evaluated at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and 1 year after injection including toe flexion/ extension, ankle plantar flexion/ dorsiflexion

    Measured: Change from Baseline data at 1 year

  4. Functional ambulation classification scale

    patients will be evaluated at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and 1 year after injection

    Measured: Change from Baseline data at 1 year

  5. Active range of motion measured by goniometer

    patients will be evaluated at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and 1 year after injection

    Measured: Change from Baseline data at 1 year

  6. Modified Ashworth scale(MAS)

    patients will be evaluated at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and 1 year after injection

    Measured: Change from Baseline data at 1 year

  7. Pain severity measurement recorded by VAS

    patients will be evaluated at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and 1 year after injection 0=no pain; 100=maximum

    Measured: Change from Baseline data at 1 year

  8. To develop a questionnaire (ABILOCO questionnaire)

    patients will be evaluated at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and 1 year after injection.

    Its a Rasch-built 13-item questionnaire to assess locomotion ability in stroke patients.

    Measured: Change from Baseline data at 1 year

  9. Berg Balance test

    patients will be evaluated at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and 1 year after injection

    Measured: Change from Baseline data at 1 year

  10. Get up and go test

    patients will be evaluated at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and 1 year after injection

    Measured: Change from Baseline data at 1 year

  11. 10-meter walking test

    patients will be evaluated at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and 1 year after injection

    Measured: Change from Baseline data at 1 year

  12. Fugl-Meyer Assessment

    patients will be evaluated at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and 1 year after injection

    Measured: Change from Baseline data at 1 year

  13. Barthel Index

    patients will be evaluated at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and 1 year after injection

    Measured: Change from Baseline data at 1 year

  14. 6 minute walking test

    patients will be evaluated at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and 1 year after injection

    Measured: Change from Baseline data at 1 year

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted26 Oct 2015 (estimated)
  2. Study startAug 2010
  3. Primary completionJul 2013
  4. Study completionJul 2013

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
30 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02586142
Sponsor's protocol ID
NMRPG890041
Status last verified
Aug 2010
First submitted
12 Oct 2015
Last updated
26 Oct 2015
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No

Publications

  • Yelnik AP, Bonan IV. [Post stroke hemiplegia: lower limb benefit from botulinum toxin (review)]. Ann Readapt Med Phys. 2003 Jul;46(6):281-5. doi: 10.1016/s0168-6054(03)00111-9. French.

    PubMed 12928130
  • Rivera-Dominguez M, DiBenedetto M, Frisbie JH, Rossier AB. Pes cavus and claw toes deformity in patients with spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis. Paraplegia. 1979 Feb;16(4):375-82. doi: 10.1038/sc.1978.71.

    PubMed 431969
  • Mizel MS, Yodlowski ML. Disorders of the Lesser Metatarsophalangeal Joints. J Am Acad Orthop Surg. 1995 May;3(3):166-173. doi: 10.5435/00124635-199505000-00006.

    PubMed 10790665
  • Feeney MS, Williams RL, Stephens MM. Selective lengthening of the proximal flexor tendon in the management of acquired claw toes. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2001 Apr;83(3):335-8. doi: 10.1302/0301-620x.83b3.11506.

    PubMed 11341415
  • Boulton AJ. Pressure and the diabetic foot: clinical science and offloading techniques. Am J Surg. 2004 May;187(5A):17S-24S. doi: 10.1016/S0002-9610(03)00297-6.

    PubMed 15147987
  • Myerson MS, Shereff MJ. The pathological anatomy of claw and hammer toes. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1989 Jan;71(1):45-9.

    PubMed 2913002
  • Truckenbrodt H, Hafner R, von Altenbockum C. Functional joint analysis of the foot in juvenile chronic arthritis. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 1994 Sep-Oct;12 Suppl 10:S91-6.

    PubMed 7955636
  • Cyphers SM, Feiwell E. Review of the Girdlestone-Taylor procedure for clawtoes in myelodysplasia. Foot Ankle. 1988 Apr;8(5):229-33. doi: 10.1177/107110078800800501.

    PubMed 3366427
  • Bernbach EH, Bernbach MR. A box joint arthrodesis for the proximal interphalangeal joint in claw toe deformity. J Am Podiatr Med Assoc. 1985 Nov;75(11):575-80. doi: 10.7547/87507315-75-11-575. No abstract available.

    PubMed 4067859
  • Gracies JM, Elovic E, McGuire J, Simpson DM. Traditional pharmacological treatments for spasticity. Part I: Local treatments. Muscle Nerve Suppl. 1997;6:S61-91.

    PubMed 9826983
  • Gajiwala KJ, Sams SB, Pandya N, Wagh A. A new dynamic lumbrical simulating splint for claw hand deformity. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1991 Jan;87(1):170-3. doi: 10.1097/00006534-199101000-00030.

    PubMed 1984264
  • Gracies JM, Nance P, Elovic E, McGuire J, Simpson DM. Traditional pharmacological treatments for spasticity. Part II: General and regional treatments. Muscle Nerve Suppl. 1997;6:S92-120.

    PubMed 9826984
  • O'Brien CF. Treatment of spasticity with botulinum toxin. Clin J Pain. 2002 Nov-Dec;18(6 Suppl):S182-90. doi: 10.1097/00002508-200211001-00011.

    PubMed 12569967
  • Jankovic J. Botulinum toxin in clinical practice. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2004 Jul;75(7):951-7. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.034702.

    PubMed 15201348
  • Korelitz BI, Sommers SC. Responses to drug therapy in ulcerative colitis. Evaluation by rectal biopsy and histopathological changes. Am J Gastroenterol. 1975 Nov;64(5):365-70.

    PubMed 2008

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 3 study testing Botulinum Toxin Type A and Stretching exercise in people with Cerebrovascular Accident, run by Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at 1 site in Taiwan.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 4 inclusion and 9 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 26 Oct 2015. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in Taiwan. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 3 studies compare the treatment with the current standard treatment or a placebo in a large group, to confirm how well it works and watch for side effects.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Spasticity severity scale (time frame: Change from Baseline data at 1 year). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT02586142, which also lists 26 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 26 Oct 2015.

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