Intelligent Activity-based Client-centred Training (i-ACT)

PXL University College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Central Nervous System Diseases; Aged

Treatments: Device: i-ACT

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02982811

i-ACT2

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether additional therapy with i-ACT system is effective in the training of functional skills in persons with central neurological diseases (e.g. multiple sclerosis, stroke, spinal cord injury, etc.).

Enrollment: 47 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Medical diagnosis of central nervous system disease (e.g. multiple sclerosis, stroke, spinal cord, etc.)
• Be able to understand and respond to questions in Dutch
• Actively involved in a rehabilitation programme in the participating rehabilitation centres
• Have a dysfunction in upper and/or lower limb and/or core stability
• Specifically for multiple sclerosis: min. of one month without corticosteroids
• Specifically for stroke and spinal cord: min. 3 months post injury

Exclusion criteria

• Severe spasticity which prevent performing basic functional exercises
• Severe cognitive and communicative impairment which prevent the person to understand and respond to Dutch instructions
• Severe visual impairment, e.g. blindness, cataract, etc.
• Pregnancy
• Persons who use an electrical wheelchair, who can not transfer safely into a normal chair and perform the exercises

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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47 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Therapy as usual, i.e. occupational therapy, physiotherapy, etc.

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Therapy as usual together with 3x45min training with i-ACT system during 6 weeks.

Treatment:

Device: i-ACT