Smart Phone for Stroke Upper Limb Motor Function Training

Kaohsiung Medical University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Stroke

Treatments

Other: smart phone App rehabilitation

Other: conventional rehabilitation

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05217329

KMUHIRB-E(I)-20190067

Details and patient eligibility

About

Stroke rehabilitation for stroke patients can enhance the upper and lower limb function, daily of daily activity improvement, and be beneficial to the family members' quality of life. Literature studies have supported the use of tele-rehabilitation to be as effective as stroke home rehabilitation. Stroke tele-rehabilitation model can use smartphones and apps to practice the mobile health model. Nevertheless, effects of tele-rehabilitation analysis for the proximal recovery of the stroke upper limbs still need to be explored. The main purpose of this research is to develop a smart phone with app system for stroke upper limb motor training, and further analyze its feasibility and treatment effects. The investigators randomly assigned chronic home stroke cases to the experimental group (n=20) and control group (n=20), each group received 8 weeks of treatment.

Full description

Stroke rehabilitation (including occupational therapy and physical therapy) for stroke patients can enhance the upper and lower limb function, daily of daily activity improvement, and be beneficial to the family members' quality of life. Literature studies have supported the use of tele-rehabilitation to be as effective as stroke home rehabilitation. Stroke tele-rehabilitation model can use smartphones and apps to practice the mobile health model. This technology with remote rehabilitation have the important characteristics, including ease of use, high-intensity, repetitive exercises, and providing feedback information, to facilitate the recovery of training functions. Nevertheless, effects of tele-rehabilitation analysis for the proximal recovery of the stroke upper limbs still need to be explored. The main purpose of this research is to develop a smart phone with app system for stroke upper limb motor training, and further analyze its feasibility and treatment effects. The investigators randomly assigned chronic home stroke cases to the experimental group (n=20) and control group (n=20), each group received 8 weeks of treatment.

Enrollment

40 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 79 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

First onset
Unilateral Hemiplegia
No obvious cognitive impairment (Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score > 23)
The FMA upper limb movement score is above 30 points
Those who have used a smartphone for more than 3 months before the onset of the disease or at present
Those who have no obvious vision loss and can read the text on mobile phones clearly
Those who own a smart phone

Exclusion criteria

Language barriers or aphasia
Other orthopedic diseases (such as severe shoulder pain, joint contractures) or nerve damage (such as peripheral nerve damage) that affect the movement of the upper limbs
Feel severe Absence, FMA sensory score <12 points
Other progressive diseases such as cancer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, etc