Impact of Non-invasive Brain Stimulation, Associated With Upper Limb Robot-assisted Therapy, on Motor Recuperation

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Device: tDCS (ELDITH) and RAT (REAplan)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02512289

IONS-Gilliaux-03

Details and patient eligibility

About

tDCS (transcranial direct current stimulation) and robot assisted therapy (RAT) will be used in chronic stroke patients to improve a variety of functions with upper limb.

Full description

tDCS and RAT will be used in chronic stroke patients to improve a variety of functions such as motor functions with upper limb.

tDCS will be applied in a placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised fashion. A session of RAT will be associated with tDCS/placebo. Behavioural data will be collected before and after tDCS, associated with RAT.

Enrollment: 21 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• stroke with at least slight deficit in upper limb

Exclusion criteria

• epilepsy
• contraindication to tDCS
• presence of metal in the head
• inability to understand/complete behavioural tasks
• chronic intake of alcohol or recreative drugs
• major health condition (e.g. terminal renal failure, instable heart failure etc ...)
• pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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21 participants in 2 patient groups

Real stimulation

Active Comparator group

Description:

real tDCS associated with robot-assisted therapy (RAT)

Treatment:

Device: tDCS (ELDITH) and RAT (REAplan)

Sham stimulation

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Sham tDCS associated with RAT

Treatment:

Device: tDCS (ELDITH) and RAT (REAplan)