Ischemic Conditioning Chronic Stroke Study

Ischemic conditioning is a well-defined, non-invasive procedure which consists of inflating a blood pressure cuff around a limb (in our study, the paretic leg), inflating the cuff to 225 mmHg to occlude blood flow to the limb for 5 minutes, releasing the cuff for 5 minutes, and repeating 5 times. In our study, participants will receive one session of the intervention (45 minutes total).

There will also be an IC Sham group which is identical to the IC intervention, except the cuff is only inflated to 10 mmHg, which is a high enough pressure to perceive cuff tightness but not high enough to have any physiological effects.