Stroke Clinical Trial
Official title:
Smart Rehabilitation Exosuits for Clinic and Home Assistance
Aim is to do a feasibility and refinement trial to assess the safety and comfort of the robotic device and their preliminary effect on muscular activity during the performance of activities of daily living. The study was carried out with 10 stroke participants who had to carry out a series of 10 functional tasks with and without the suit over 3 sessions. The results are encouraging and show the potential of using wearable robotic devices in a clinical setting.
Each participant completed 3 ninety-minute long sessions at CART over the course of a week. All participants were closely supervised by 1 occupational therapist and 1 engineer involved in the development of the devices. In the first session, screening of the patient was performed, where the patient's demographics and clinical parameters were collected, including the grip strength of the affected hand measured by a hand dynamometer taking the mean of 2 attempts, and MOCA, FMA and MAS scores. Afterwards, a familiarisation phase was conducted, where the participant trialled the robotic devices to understand their mechanisms and learn how to use them. This phase also allowed the researchers to adjust the fitting of the exoskeletons and tuning the control algorithm of the elbow exoskeleton to the biomechanics of each user, in order to achieve best comfort and assistance. The participants were instructed to perform a series of elbow/finger flexion and extension movements to understand how to control the exoskeletons. The participants also interacted with different objects (cup, cube, ball) to adjust the positioning of the anchor points in the glove to the position the participants felt most comfortable with. Once the optimised fitting of the devices was identified, the obtained parameters were stored, and the configuration of the devices was left unchanged for reuse in the next session. In the 2 remaining sessions, participants performed a series of 10 functional tasks. The tasks were performed without assistance (NO-EXO condition) and with assistance (EXO condition) of the exoskeletons. The tasks were performed first in the unpowered condition to allow the participants to familiarise themselves with the tasks before performing them with the assistance of the devices. The participants were instructed to start every attempt at a task from a position marked on the floor, and with their arms fully relaxed. This was to ensure that variability from unknown factors was minimised. The participants then awaited the instruction from the researchers to commence the task, given in the form of a spoken command triggered by the press of a button. The button was pressed again to signal the end of the task, defined by the following in order of priority: 1) participant decided to stop; 2) the participant dropped the object; 3) therapist decided to stop after deciding the participant was experiencing difficulties and further attempts would not contribute to a successful performance of the task; 4) task is successfully completed. In addition to the performance of functional tasks, the standing horizontal fingertip reaching distance and the elbow ROM were measured using a measuring tape and a goniometer, respectively. At the end of the 3rd session, the participants were asked to fill up a questionnaire to provide their subjective feedback regarding comfort, ergonomics, ease of use, overall clinical benefit and user satisfaction. ;
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