Effect of Robotic Therapy on Upper Extremity With Stroke

Istanbul Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Training and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: the Effect of Virtual Reality on Stroke Rehabilitation

Treatments: Other: robotic exercise therapy; Other: conventional therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05815823

2015/14/01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine how adding virtual reality assisted robotic treatment to traditional rehabilitation affects stroke patients' pain levels, functional status, and daily living activities.After conventional and robotic therapy Each patient was evaluated The Barthel Index (BI), the Fugl Meyer Assessment Upper Extremity (FMA-UE), and the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) were used to assess the patients' pain, daily living activities, and upper extremity motor function.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to determine how adding virtual reality assisted robotic treatment to traditional rehabilitation affects stroke patients' pain levels, functional status, and daily living activities.

Materials and Methods: The study included 40 stroke patients. Two groups of patients were created. Group I also underwent 20 sessions of upper extremity robot-assisted therapy for 4 weeks, 5 days a week, for 30 minutes per session, in addition to receiving conventional therapy (5 days a week for 4 weeks, 1 hour each day). Group II only got traditional therapy. Each patient was assessed both before and after the procedure.

The Barthel Index (BI), the Fugl Meyer Assessment Upper Extremity (FMA-UE), and the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) were used to assess the patients' pain, daily living activities, and upper extremity motor function.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ischemic or hemorhagic hemiplegia

• Brunnstrom upper extremity motor stage ≥3
• At least 3 months have passed
• Modified Ashworth Score ≤2
• 18-85 year old patients with diagnosis of stroke

Exclusion criteria

• Aphasia
• Cognitive impairment
• mini mental test <24
• deformity and / or contracture in the upper extremity
• Patients diagnosed with KBAS

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

conventional therapy

Experimental group

Description:

20 sessions of conventional therapy was applied for 5 days a week for 4 weeks, 1 hour a day

Treatment:

Other: conventional therapy

robot-assisted therapy

Experimental group

Description:

20 sessions of upper extremity robot-assisted therapy was applied for 4 weeks, 5 days a week, 30 minutes a day.

Treatment:

Other: robotic exercise therapy

Other: conventional therapy