Bimanual Motor Skill Learning Through Robotics in Chronic Cerebellar Stroke Survivors and Healthy Individuals

University Hospital of Mont-Godinne

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Healthy Individuals (Controls); Chronic Cerebellar Stroke

Treatments: Device: Bimanual motor skill learning with the REAplan® rehabilitation robot

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04642599

BimMSkL-Cerebellum

Details and patient eligibility

About

To test capacity of chronic cerebellar stroke patients and healthy individuals to learn and retain a complex bimanual motor skill, trained on the neurorehabilitation robot REAplan® (bimanual version).

Full description

Over 3 consecutive days, healthy individuals and chronic cerebellar stroke patients (1) will be evaluated and (2) will train on the neurorehabilitation robot REAplan®.

They will practice several tasks on the robot REAplan® (bimanual version), requiring either movements with the affected arm (unimanual tasks) or complex, coordinated movements with both arms (bimanual tasks).

In addition, several "classical" clinical scales and tests will be used to evaluate overall motor-sensory-cognitive functions (clinical tests, questionnaires, ...).

Hand/digits motor function will be also evaluated with the kinetic device DexTrain®.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

STROKE PATIENTS:

Inclusion Criteria:

• having a chronic cerebellar stroke (>6 months)
• aged 18-90 years
• with a demonstrated stroke (ischemic or hemorrhagic) lesion on brain imaging

Exclusion Criteria:

• difficulty in understanding or executing commands
• drug/alcohol abuse
• severe aphasia / cognitive deficits interfering with study
• inability to voluntarily move the affected arm (i.e. complete paralysis of the arm)
• multiple strokes / dementia / psychiatric condition

HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS:

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18-90 years

Exclusion Criteria:

• neurological conditions interfering with the study
• drug/alcohol abuse
• pyschiatric condition

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Chronic Cerebellar Stroke

Experimental group

Description:

Participants with a chronic cerebellar stroke

Treatment:

Device: Bimanual motor skill learning with the REAplan® rehabilitation robot

Healthy Individuals (Controls)

Active Comparator group

Description:

healthy participants

Treatment:

Device: Bimanual motor skill learning with the REAplan® rehabilitation robot