Smartphone Rehabilitation App For Stroke Survivor

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Device: Smartphone Rehabilitation Application

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05139550

REC/00828 Rabiya Tahir

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a pilot study of a smartphone app in which the tool will be developed and validation of the tool will be done for the rehabilitation of upper limb in stroke survivors. The study will be divided into two phases. The first phase will be the development of a smartphone app for upper limb function. The second phase of the study will be a pilot study where 10 stroke patients will be recruited and upper limb intervention will be applied through a smartphone app.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subacute and chronic stroke patient > 3 months post stroke till 1 year.
• Modified Ashworth scale scoring ≤ 2
• An ability to understand the command
• First ever stroke
• Grade II, III on Functional mobility Scale
• Able to use and comprehend smart phone.

Exclusion criteria

• Vestibular disorders, paroxysmal vertigo
• Presence of other neurological conditions such as neglect, hemianopsia and pushing syndrome

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 1 patient group

Smartphone Rehabilitation Application

Experimental group

Description:

Upper Limb Exercise Protocol: Passive Exercises ROMs for shoulder, ROMs for elbow, ROMs for wrist,fingers and thumb Active/Assisted Exercises bilateral shoulder flexion with both hands interlocked, Elbow pronation and supination, Wrist flexion and extension with the help of unaffected hand, Forearm to box, Extend elbow (side), Hand to box (front) Functional Activities Lift can, Lift pencil, Lift paper clip, Stack checkers, Flip cards, Fold towel, drinking water from a glass, lifting a glass of water to a level of 90° shoulder flexion with an extended elbow, moving 5 crystals from the table to a box, wiping the table with a towel with the elbow extended, grasping and releasing a 6 cm in diameter tennis ball, combing their hair, Eating with affected hand, opening and closing jars

Treatment:

Device: Smartphone Rehabilitation Application