Improvement Effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Applied During Exercise Training in Stroke Patients With Upper Limb and Hand Motor Function

Yun-Hee Kim

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Device: sham tDCS stimulation with hand task; Device: tDCS stimulation with hand task

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05275114

2021-06-176

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to improve the effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) applied during exercise training in stroke patients with upper limb and hand motor function.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients aged 19 to 80 years
• Less than 58 FMA Upper scores
• Patients whose lesions do not include stimulation regions
• Patients with stroke with more than 3 months of onset

Exclusion criteria

• Difficult to communicate due to severe language impairment.
• Accompanied by an existing serious neurogenic disease
• Existing significant psychiatric disorders such as major schizophrenia, bipolar disorder
• If there are difficulties in conducting the research
• Any patients who are judged by the investigator to be difficult to participate in this study
• Patients with contraindicated MRI scans

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

Hand Tasks + M1(1mA) & aIPS(1mA) tDCS

Experimental group

Description:

20 minutes of Hand Taks + applying 30 minutes of M1(1mA) \& aIPS(1mA) tDCS and fNIRS

Treatment:

Device: tDCS stimulation with hand task

Hand Tasks + Sham tDCS

Active Comparator group

Description:

20 minutes of Hand Tasks + 30 minutes of sham tDCS and fNIRS

Treatment:

Device: sham tDCS stimulation with hand task