Several Studys Showed That Upper Limb Amputated Patients Are Able to Experience the Illusion of the Rubber Hand Whith Prosthesis: We Want to go Futher by Comparing the Strength of the Incorporation According to the Type of Prosthesis Using the Illusion of the Rubber Hand With Prothesis

Appropriate Affect Clinical Trial

— MYARM  

Official title:

Incorporation de prothèses Chez Les Patients amputés de Membre supérieur à l'IRMA

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05931198
• Other study ID #: 22.03801.000168
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 12, 2023
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: June 2024
• Source: Institut Robert Merle d'aubigné
• Contact: Anton KANIEWSKI, Master
• Phone: +33 1 45 10 80 97
• Email: a.kaniewski[@]irma-valenton.fr
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this observational study is to compare the strength of the incorporation according to the type of prosthesis (aesthetic, mechanical, myoelectric) with the experience the illusion of the rubber hand. The investigators will replace is the rubber by the patient's prothesis. The population will be people with upper arm amputation above the hand and they will be their own comparation. Participants will do the the experience the illusion of the rubber hand in asynchronic and synchronic way and to answer questionnaries.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 36
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: May 15, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• At least one upper limb amputation
• Informed and consented to participate to the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• having a history of severe neurological, visual or musculoskeletal impairments (other than the loss of a limb)
• with severe serious psychiatric disorders (e.g. schizophrenia)
• having problems understanding French in order to guarantee a good understanding of the questionnaires
• under guardianship or curatorship

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Appropriate Affect

Intervention

Other:
• Modified illusion of the rubber (syncrhone)
The residual limb of the patient will be hide for the patient. The prothesis and the other hand of the patient will be visible. The investigators are going to touch the residual limb and the prothesis at the same time (synchrone) during at least 2 min. The investigators will ask to the patient to point where they felt the touching spot on a tray with measurement grid and to asnwer to the pre-prepared questionnaire.
• Modified illusion of the rubber (asynchrone)
The residual limb of the patient will be hide for the patient. The prothesis and the other hand of the patient will be visible. The investigators are going to touch the residual limb and the prothesis not at the same time (asynchrone) during at least 2 min. The investigators will ask to the patient to point where they felt the touching spot on a tray with measurement grid and to asnwer to the pre-prepared questionnaire.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Institut Robert Merle d'Aubigné	Valenton

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Institut Robert Merle d'aubigné

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

References & Publications (2)

Botvinick M, Cohen J. Rubber hands 'feel' touch that eyes see. Nature. 1998 Feb 19;391(6669):756. doi: 10.1038/35784. No abstract available. — View Citation

Ehrsson HH, Rosen B, Stockselius A, Ragno C, Kohler P, Lundborg G. Upper limb amputees can be induced to experience a rubber hand as their own. Brain. 2008 Dec;131(Pt 12):3443-52. doi: 10.1093/brain/awn297. Epub 2008 Dec 11. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Proprioceptive drift	Before and after each intervention, we are going to ask to the patient to point where we touch the residual limb on a graduated board.	Immediately after the intervention
Secondary	Appropriate affect	After each intervention, patient will answering to a questionnary about appropriation with their past as comparaison.	Immediately after the intervention
Secondary	Influence of patient's characteristic	Compare patient's characteristic with other outome : amputation level, time since amputation, time using the prothestics	During the patient's inclusion / Baseline