Exploring New Approaches in Reaching Behavior Post Stroke

University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

Status

Completed

Conditions

Stroke

Treatments

Behavioral: stabilization training

Behavioral: auditory training group

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00844870

06-007

Details and patient eligibility

About

After 4 weeks of training the hypothesis that the more natural training program would yield greater functional changes was proven correct.

Full description

Analysis indicated that both methods improved reaching without trunk use Reaching performance scale (RPS), but the trunk -stabilized group led to more significant changes. Training under less restrictive conditions associated with Task-Related Training (TRT) (auditory feedback from trunk sensor) as compared to stabilized TRT, led to improved functional and impairment measure scores (WMFT, FM and shoulder flexion). Conclusion: Fading feedback with both training methods, during extended TRT reaching/grasping practice generally led to some improvements. However, as demonstrated by impairment and functional outcome measures, using TRT with an auditory feedback signals is a more effective approach than forcing the stabilization of the trunk during rehabilitation of the upper-limb.

Enrollment

24 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Individuals all scored between 20 and 44 on the Upper-Arm subsection of the Fugl-Meyer Scale (FM- Poole & Whitney, 1988) and demonstrated some trunk movement during the pretest reaching performance scale measures (RPS, Levin 2006)

Exclusion criteria