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NCT ID: NCT03032692 Completed - Ischemic Stroke Clinical Trials

Motor Task Performance Under Visual and Auditory Feedback Post Stroke: a Randomized Crossover Trial

Start date: June 1, 2016
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

The study was designed to evaluate the impact of a novel kinematic biofeedback system - SWORD - in the motor performance of patients after stroke. The SWORD system combines inertial motion trackers and a mobile app, allowing digitization of patient motion and providing real-time audiovisual biofeedback. The investigators hypothesize that the biofeedback feedback provided by the SWORD system improves patient performance, defined as an increase in the number of correct movements. The design of the study is a cross-over randomized clinical trial. Patients will be randomized into two groups. Both will perform two separate sessions consisting of one exercise - shoulder flexion with elbow flexion at 90 degrees - for 4 minutes in both experimental settings: with and without biofeedback. Group 1 will perform the exercise with biofeedback first and without biofeedback after, with an interval >24h. Group 2 will perform the exercise in the opposite order. The SWORD system will be used to record movement data in both sessions, but the feedback was only active in one of them.

NCT ID: NCT02096445 Completed - Stroke Clinical Trials

Neurocognitive Robot-assisted Rehabilitation of Hand Function After Stroke

Start date: April 2013
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

The aim of this project is to clinically evaluate a novel robot-assisted therapeutic approach to train sensorimotor hand function after stroke. It combines the profound experience of the clinic Hildebrand in neurocognitive therapy - involving brain and mind in the task and training both the motor and the sensory system - with the advanced haptic robotic technology of the Rehabilitation Engineering Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), allowing unmet interaction with the hand through the simulation of virtual objects with various mechanical properties. In a randomized controlled clinical trial, 10 sub-acute stroke patients will receive four weeks of robotic therapy sessions, integrated seamlessly into their daily rehabilitation program, while 10 other patients will receive conventional therapy. The investigators will assess baseline performance in an initial clinical and robotic assessment, with another assessment at the end of the four-week period, and in follow-ups four weeks and six months later. The contents of the patient-tailored robotic therapy sessions will match those of the conventional therapy as closely as possible. This study will demonstrate the feasibility of including robotic therapy of hand function into the daily rehabilitation program, and investigate the acceptance from patients and therapists. The investigators expect increased training intensity during the robotic therapy session compared to conventional sessions with similar contents, as well as novel insights into the recovery process of both the motor and the sensory system during the four weeks of therapy, through advanced robotic assessments integrated into the training sessions. This project is a first step towards making such robotic therapy available to patients as integration into the conventional individual therapy program (e.g. for self-training), and towards transferring this technology to the home environment.

NCT ID: NCT01721668 Completed - Stroke Clinical Trials

Improving Arm and Hand Functions in Chronic Stroke (CIHR 2012-2015)

Start date: November 2012
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

Improving arm and hand function after stroke has been difficult to achieve within the rehabilitation service provided in the acute stage often due to the limited resource in health care. While spontaneous recovery plateaus after 6 months, the prolonged disability affects quality of life and social participation in stroke survivors. This study is aimed at improving chronic motor impairment arm and hand impairment by providing the intervention with intensive training schedule. This study will compare two types of rehabilitation intervention using a randomized controlled trial. Measurements also will be taken on various brain functions non-invasively to help discover how each of the intervention strategies works differently to repair the brain.

NCT ID: NCT01102309 Completed - Stroke Clinical Trials

Robot-assisted Rehabilitation of the Upper Limb in Acute and Subacute Post-stroke Patients

Start date: October 2008
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

The goal of this study is to determine if robot aided rehabilitation therapy can be equivalent to or more effective than conventional rehabilitation therapy at promoting functional recovery of the paretic upper limb in acute and subacute stroke patients.

NCT ID: NCT00719433 Completed - Stroke Clinical Trials

Functional Recovery in Stroke Patients With Task-Specific Robot-Aided Arm Therapy

Start date: July 2008
Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
Study type: Interventional

The goal of this study is to determine whether task-oriented, robot-aided therapy is more effective than conventional physical and occupational therapy at promoting functional recovery of the affected arm in chronic hemiparetic stroke patients.