Bimanual Motor Skill Learning Through Robotics in Stroke Survivors and Healthy Individuals (bimMsKL)

University Hospital of Mont-Godinne

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Device: Bimanual motor skill learning with the REAplan(R) rehabilitation robot

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03974750

bimMsKL

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full description

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

They will practice several tasks on the robot REAplan (R) (bimanual version), requiring either movements with the affected arm (unimanual tasks) and 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, ...).

Enrollment: 100 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 stroke (>6 months)
• aged 18-90 years
• with demonstrate a stroke 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
• botulinum toxin injections (to be evaluated)

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: Single Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Training on the rehabilitation robot REAplan(R) to learn complex, coordinated bimanual movements

Treatment:

Device: Bimanual motor skill learning with the REAplan(R) rehabilitation robot

control intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

Training on the rehabilitation robot REAplan(R) with simple movements

Treatment:

Device: Bimanual motor skill learning with the REAplan(R) rehabilitation robot