Automatic Versus Intentional Movement Exercises to Enhance Arm Functions After Stroke (AUTOTAB)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status

Completed

Conditions

Upper-limb Paresis

Stroke

Treatments

Other: motor training

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01565044

2011.675

Details and patient eligibility

About

Many patients retain upper-limb motor impairment following stroke. Most conventional rehabilitation techniques are aimed to improve motor intentional movement by repeated exercises. These techniques require attentional load and are responsible for significant fatigue that probably represents a limiting factor. Alternatively, the automatic control of action is now well documented. A rehabilitation method based on this principle could allow recovery of more natural movements.

Hypothesis: Stimulating automatic motricity improves upper-limb motor skills compared with a rehabilitation technique based on intentional movements.

Enrollment

26 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 80 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All subjects must be between the ages of 18-80 and must not be pregnant
Patients volunteer to participate in the study, with a written informed consent signed
Affiliation to a national health insurance program
Hemiplegia after stroke
Stroke onset >6 weeks and <4 years prior to study enrollment
Patients able to perform the exercises on the automated table

Exclusion criteria

Pregnancy
Excessive pain in any joint of the paretic extremity (VAS>5)
Coexistent major neurological or psychiatric disease as to decrease number of confounders
Subjects with global aphasia and deficits of comprehension
Any substantial decrease in alertness, language reception, or attention that might interfere with understanding instructions for motor testing