CUHK Jockey Club HOPE 4 Care Programme - Hand of Hope

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Device: EMG-driven

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03808415

2018.399

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 interactive intention-driven hand training robotic system is used for neuromuscular rehabilitation of the hand and forearm. This can help stroke survivors to regain their hand functions through motor relearning.

Enrollment: 111 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• at least six months after the onset of a unilateral ischemic brain injury or intracerebral haemorrhage
• upper-limb motor impairments due to stroke
• metacarpophalangeal and proximal interphalangeal joints of fingers can be extended to 180 degree passively
• spasticity during extension at the finger joints is lower than 3 as measured by the Modified Ashworth Scale
• detectable voluntary EMG signals from the flexor digitorum and extensor digitorum muscles of the paretic hand
• have sufficient cognition to follow the experimental instructions

Exclusion criteria

• have other neurological, neuromuscular, and orthopedic diseases
• have shoulder or arm contracture/pain

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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111 participants in 1 patient group

EMG-driven

Experimental group

Description:

The hand training system functions as a biofeedback device which surface electromyography (EMG) sensors are used to capture the user's own muscle signals to activate the system for moving his/her paretic hand.

Treatment:

Device: EMG-driven