Electromyography-biofeedback on the Motor Activation of the Extension of the Hand (EMGBIO-ICTUS)

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia

Status

Completed

Conditions

Stroke, Complication

Treatments

Device: surface electromyography-biofeedback

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03838809

UCAM/UITA/03

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: Biofeedback-Surface electromyography (BIO-SEMG) is a relatively recent physiotherapy technique. Although its use is widespread in sports science and sports performance, its use for the rehabilitation of patients with neurological pathologies is less studied.

Objective: The purpose of this research was to determine the changes that occur in the application of BIO-SEMG in the muscles responsible for the extension and the dorsiflexion of the hand and the foot in subjects with cerebrovascular damage.

Design: A randomized, double-blind, two-arm parallel group study was performed.

Patients: A sample of 28 subjects with limited extension of the hand and dorsiflexion of the foot as a consequence of a stroke was randomized divided in intervention or control groups.

Methods: The subjects of the intervention group underwent 12 sessions of BIO-SEMG, of 15-minute duration each of them, in the upper and lower members. On the other hand, the control group underwent another 12 sessions of 15-minute duration, in which manual physiotherapy techniques were performed.

Enrollment

28 patients

Sex

All

Ages

74 to 84 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients with a stroke
Limitation of the hand and foot extension

Exclusion criteria

Patients with some contraindication against the surface electromyography biofeedback technique, for instance, people with pacemaker, with cardiovascular antecedents, etc.
Patients receiving other physiotherapy treatment 2 months before the beginning of the study
Patients that decline to sign the informed consent.