Enhanced Reality for Hemiparetic Arm in the Stroke Patients

Ulsan University Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Stroke; Mirror Movement; Paresis

Treatments: Other: No Enhanced reality; Device: Enhanced reality

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03270852

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Details and patient eligibility

About

The researchers found that enhanced reality developed for the first time in the word by us had a synergistic or additive effect on brain plasticity in patients without central nervous system injury. The aim of this study is to determine the validity and feasibility of enhanced reality in hemiparetic arm in the stroke patients with central nervous system injury.

Full description

Pre-interventional evaluation; within 1 day of initiation of the intervention; 10 days after initiation of the intervention; 30 days after termination of treatment.

Enrollment: 38 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Arm motor Fugl-Mayer scale; wrist/hand subscales ≥ 2-20
• 9-hole pegboard ; ≥ 25% of contra-lateral hand

Exclusion criteria

• Alexander apraxia scale ≤2
• NIH stroke scale question Ia-c ≥1
• Nottingham sensory scale; <75% of contra-lateral hand
• Ashworth scale ≥3
• NIH stroke scale question IX ≥2
• Beck depression inventory ≥21
• Significant upper extremity disease causing hand or below elbow dysfunction
• Visual disturbance
• Refusal of participation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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38 participants in 2 patient groups

Enhanced reality

Experimental group

Description:

Patients are provided with occupational therapy and physical therapy (task-oriented OT 30 min, FES 20 min) daily for 50 minutes. ER therapy is provided 2 times a day for 10 minutes for 2 weeks (10 days of treatment week), except for time of installation, calibration, and 3 minute breaks.

Treatment:

Device: Enhanced reality

No Enhanced reality

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients are provided with occupational therapy and physical therapy (task-oriented OT 30 min, FES 20 min) daily for 50 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: No Enhanced reality