CUHK Jockey Club HOPE 4 Care Programme - Ankle Robot

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Device: Ankle Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03808428

2018.493

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust has supported CUHK to launch a three-year project 'CUHK Jockey Club HOPE4Care Programme' to implement four evidence-based advanced rehabilitation technologies in 40 local elderly day care centres and rehabilitation centres, to benefit the community. The Exoskeleton Ankle Robot is a robot-assisted Ankle-Foot-Orthosis to facilitate gait training of person after stroke with drop foot.

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• have the ability to walk on the ground independently or with one personal assistance with or without walking aids
• able to understand simple commends

Exclusion criteria

• have other neurological, neuromuscular, and orthopedic diseases
• uncontrolled cardiovascular or respiratory disorders
• moderate to severe contractures in the lower extremities

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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120 participants in 1 patient group

Ankle Group

Experimental group

Description:

Integrated with force and motion sensors to identify gait phase and classify user walking intention using machine learning control algorithm.

Treatment:

Device: Ankle Group