A Pilot Study of Robot-assisted Therapy for Post-stroke Forearm and Wrist Rehabilitation Training

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Other: Standard rehabilitation therapy; Device: Robot-assisted therapy for wrist and forearm

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02274675

UTM-CR2-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

A pilot study to assess the effectiveness of CR2-Haptic and determine the feasibility of including robotic therapy into the daily rehabilitation program.

Full description

The objective of this study is to clinically assess the effectiveness of CR2-Haptic and determine the feasibility of including robotic therapy into the daily rehabilitation program, and investigate the acceptance from patients and therapists. Total of 7 patients will be recruited in this study, all the patients will receive 1.5 hours of standard therapy together with 0.5 hour of robot therapy every day. The robot therapy will be a 30 mins long session for 3 to 5 days per week over a period of six weeks. The study will include forearm pronation-supination and wrist flexion-extension training.

Enrollment: 7 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Sub-acute and chronic stroke patients
• Able to rest comfortable in training set-up
• Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) Score (>21)
• Motor Assessment Scale (Balance sitting >3)
• Modified Ashworth Scale (Wrist < 2)

Exclusion criteria

• Contractures in affected upper extremity which inhibit movements being tested

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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7 participants in 1 patient group

Robot group

Experimental group

Description:

Receive 0.5 hour of robot-assisted therapy for wrist and forearm and 1.5 hours of daily standard rehabilitation therapy

Treatment:

Device: Robot-assisted therapy for wrist and forearm

Other: Standard rehabilitation therapy