Status:
COMPLETED
Robotic-assisted Therapy With Bilateral Practice Improves Task and Motor Performance of the Upper Extremity for Chronic Stroke Patients
Lead Sponsor:
National Cheng-Kung University Hospital
Conditions:
Stroke Rehabilitation
Eligibility:
All Genders
20-80 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Task-specific repetitive training, an usual care in occupational therapy practice, and robotic-aided rehabilitation with bilateral practice to improve limb's movement control has been popularised; how...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- chronic stroke patients with unilateral cerebral infarction or hemorrhage and whose disease duration was more than six months following stroke
- no evidence of any other cerebral pathology in study screening CT scan
- a score for the Fugl-Meyer upper extremity motor assessment ranging from 23-53 corresponding to poor to notable arm-hand capacity
- pre stroke ability to speak the Chinese
- without any other possible somatic sensory impairment, no major cognitive-perceptual deficit based on the results of selective neuropsychological tests, such as the mini-mental state examination (MMSE) and Lowenstein occupational therapy cognitive assessment (LOTCA)
- premorbid right-handedness
Exclusion
- less than six months following stroke
- CT shows multiple cerebral infarction or hemorrhage
- whose comprehension skills were insufficient to understand instructions
- individuals whose score of MMSE was lower than 24 or sub-item scores of visual perception, spatial perception, praxis, and visuomotor organization in LOTCA was lower than 8, 6, 6, and 14, respectively
- premorbid left-handedness
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 15 2014
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 2 2017
Estimated Enrollment :
43 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03847103
Start Date
April 15 2014
End Date
March 2 2017
Last Update
March 1 2019
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National Cheng-Kung University Hospital
Tainan, Taiwan, 704