New Interactive Sensor-home-based Hand Training to Improve Dexterity

Luzerner Kantonsspital

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Stroke; Multiple Sclerosis; Parkinson Disease

Treatments: Device: smart sensor egg training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06062693

2022-02300

Details and patient eligibility

About

Primary objective of this study is to explore the impact of a 3-week upper limb hand function training in patients with PD, MS or stroke. The benefits on hand function of this training program will be evaluated. The hypothesize is that the 3-week upper limb hand function training improves finger dexterity.

Full description

Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), multiple sclerosis (MS) or stroke often suffer from significantly decreased coordination and have difficulties with precise hand/finger movements during the performance of both basic activities of daily living (ADL), such as dressing, grooming as well as higher ADL, such as cooking, shopping and regular medication intake. The investigators explore the effects of a new, interactive, sensor-home-based upper limb hand training on upper limb related ADL in patients with PD, MS or stroke.

Enrollment: 160 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with confirmed PD, according to UK Brain bank Criteria (Hughes et al., 1992) or
• MS patients with relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS), secondary-progressive MS (SPMS) or primary progressive MS (PPMS) according to the revised McDonald's criteria or
• subacute stroke
• written and signed informed consent
• self-reported hand function problems

or

• healthy subject
• written and signed informed consent
• no self-reported hand function problems

Exclusion criteria

• MoCA <21/30
• psychiatric disease
• participation on other interventional trials
• Inability to follow the procedures of the study, e.g. due to language problems, psychological disorders, dementia, etc.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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160 participants in 1 patient group

smart sensor egg training

Experimental group

Description:

An interactive hand trainer with integrated sensors was developed and can be used as input devices to a training which runs on the smartphone or tablet computer to train different finger, hand, and wrist functions.

Treatment:

Device: smart sensor egg training