Effectiveness of a Robot Assisted Tenodeis-grip Neurorehabilitation

National Cheng-Kung University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rehabilitation, Tenodesis, Stroke

Treatments: Other: Motor task training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03713476

B-BR-106-074-T

Details and patient eligibility

About

In the proposed study, the investigators assumed that using robot assisted tenodesis-grip training providing high does assisted grip movement may do the effects on motor shaping and greater brain priming for hand paresis of the stroke patients. The specific aim of this study is to examine the difference in the treatment effects between the combination of robot assisted tenodesis-grip training with task-oriented training and combination of traditional occupational therapy with task-oriented training on the motor, sensation, hand performance of the stroke patients. The expected outcomes of this research are to help the clinicians understand the training mechanism and effects of robot assisted tenodesis-grip training on functional performance of upper extremity for unilateral stroke patients.

Enrollment: 38 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Clinical diagnosis of stroke with unilateral side involved;
2. Stroke at least 7 days before the start of the first assessment session;
3. A score of Mini-mental state examination greater than 24 for proving higher mental function;
4. Premorbid right-handedness.

Exclusion criteria

1. Uncontrolled hypertension;
2. Major cognitive-perceptual deficit;
3. Other brain disease.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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38 participants in 2 patient groups

Robot-assisted training

Experimental group

Description:

The participants will receive 20 minutes of robot assisted tenodesis-grip therapy, followed by 20 minutes of regular motor task specific training in each treatment session.

Treatment:

Other: Motor task training

Traditional occupational therapy

Active Comparator group

Description:

The participants will receive 20 minutes of traditional occupational therapy (sensorimotor facilitation techniques, such as: Rood, Bobath and propriocetive-neuromuscular-facilitation), followed by 20 minutes of motor task specific training in each treatment session.

Treatment:

Other: Motor task training