The General Use of Robots in Stroke Recovery

Northwell Health

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Device: IMT Robotic Arm therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01726660

11-121B

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if tailoring multiple sessions of upper extremity robotic therapy to focus on a particular aspect of movement (e.g smoothness vs. aiming; active range of motion vs. functional practice)can optimize therapeutic results and lead to greater functional returns in arm mobility after stroke.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age or older
• First single focal unilateral lesion with diagnosis verified by brain imaging, which occurred at least 6 months prior
• Cognitive function sufficient enough to understand experiments and follow instructions
• Fugl Meyer assessment at admission of 7 to 38 out of 66 (neither hemiplegic nor fully recovered motor function in the muscles of the shoulder, elbow, and wrist)

Exclusion criteria

• Prior experience with robotic arm therapy
• Fixed contraction of the affected limb
• Complete flaccid paralysis of the affected limb

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 4 patient groups

IMT Robotic Arm Therapy: Aim training

Experimental group

Description:

Alternating sessions of planar (shoulder/elbow) and wrist robotic therapy programmed for aim training, 3x/week for 12 weeks.

Treatment:

Device: IMT Robotic Arm therapy

IMT Robotic Arm Therapy: Smoothness Training

Experimental group

Description:

Alternating sessions of planar (shoulder/elbow) and wrist robotic therapy programmed for smoothness training, 3x/week for 12 weeks.

Treatment:

Device: IMT Robotic Arm therapy

IMT Robotic Arm Therapy: Impairment training

Experimental group

Description:

Alternating sessions of planar (shoulder/elbow) and wrist robotic therapy programmed for whole-arm, impairment training, 3x/week for 12 weeks.

Treatment:

Device: IMT Robotic Arm therapy

IMT Robotic Arm Therapy: Functional training

Experimental group

Description:

Alternating sessions of planar (shoulder/elbow) and wrist robotic therapy programmed for whole arm, functional training, 3x/week for 12 weeks.

Treatment:

Device: IMT Robotic Arm therapy