Prismatic Lenses and tDCS in Neglect

Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri SpA

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Stroke, Ischemic

Treatments: Combination Product: Prismatic adaptation and electric stimulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05842551

1183

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to to evaluate the effect and feasibility of a rehabilitation protocol with prismatic lenses associated with tDCS, compared to a prismatic lens rehabilitation protocol associated with sham stimulation, in reducing the signs of neglect in a group of patients with spatial heminegligence following ischemic stroke of the right hemisphere.

The secondary objective is to evaluate the impact of this rehabilitation protocol on functional outcome.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age >18 years
• ischemic stroke
• hospitalization within 90 days of the event

Exclusion criteria

• heamorrhagic stroke
• history of neurological disease
• history of psychiatric disease
• use of alchool and drugs

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will receive anodic tEs combined with prismatic lenses for two weeks

Treatment:

Combination Product: Prismatic adaptation and electric stimulation

Control

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Patients will receive sham tEs combined with prismatic lenses for two weeks

Treatment:

Combination Product: Prismatic adaptation and electric stimulation