Effect of Early Intervention for Trunk Control in Stroke Patients

Stroke is defined as rapid onset of focal neurological deficit resulting from diseases of cerebral vasculature and its contents.

To determine the effect of conventional exercises and effect of conventional exercises with structured exercise protocol on trunk control in stroke subjects. To compare the effect of structured exercise protocol and conventional treatment with conventional treatment alone.

30 subjects of clinically diagnosed stroke having impairment of trunk control were recruited. They were allocated into 2 groups and treated with conventional exercises along with additional structured exercises for trunk control regularly for 4 weeks. exercises were given in progression. Primararily passive followed by active assisted in progression of that subjects was asked to do it actively The objective outcome measures Trunk Impairment scale(TIS)and Berg balance scale were used to assess the trunk control pre-treatment and at the end of 4 weeks.

This study found that early interventions for trunk control is effective in improving balance in stroke subjects. Trunk control exercises along with the conventional treatment shows speedy recovery when given at the acute and sub acute stages of stroke