Music Therapy/Physical Therapy Intervention to Enhance Well-being and Functional Recovery Post-stroke (MT/PT)

NYU Langone Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke With Hemiparesis

Treatments: Other: Music & Physical Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01586221

11-02284

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to see if group Music Therapy and Physical Therapy will help in the recovery from stroke. It is hoped that music and physical therapy in a group setting will help physical, mental, and social well-being.

Full description

The purpose of the study is to investigate the feasibility and efficacy of an "enriched," combined music therapy/physical therapy (MT/PT) rehabilitation intervention that addresses physical, psychological, and social well-being simultaneously in a group setting to enhance post-stroke recovery. The intervention will be implemented through collaboration between the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at NYU Steinhardt and the Motor Recovery Laboratory at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, NYU Medical Center.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Able to read and write in English
2. Unilateral stroke at least 6 months prior
3. Independent community ambulation with or without assistive devices
4. Presence of at least 5 degrees of active motion in proximal and distal upper extremity joints, suggesting presence of a neural substrate for recovery

Exclusion criteria

1. Neurological or psychiatric disease such as clinical depression
2. Hearing deficits
3. History of surgery or other significant injury that could preclude task performance
4. Complicating medical problems such as uncontrolled hypertension, diabetes with signs of neuropathy, and previous neurological illness such as head trauma, prior stroke, epilepsy or demyelinating disease
5. Any factors that may put the subject at significant risk or confound study results

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Music & Physical Therapy

Other group

Description:

Subjects will received Music and Physical Therapy in a group setting.

Treatment:

Other: Music & Physical Therapy