The General Use of Robots in Stroke Recovery: the Anklebot

Northwell Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Device: seated robot-assisted ankle therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02249832

13-310

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if isolated robot-assisted training of the ankle joint improves chronic hemiparetic gait in patients after stroke.

Enrollment: 55 patients

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
• Some amount of independent ambulation (with orthoses or walker)

Exclusion criteria

• Botox treatment within 6-weeks of enrollment;
• Fixed contraction deformity in the affected limb;
• Complete and total flaccid paralysis of all lower extremity motor function;
• Unable to ambulate except with the aid of another person

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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55 participants in 1 patient group

seated robot-assisted ankle therapy

Experimental group

Description:

All participants received eighteen 1 hour sessions (3x/week for 6 weeks) of seated robot-assisted ankle training with the MIT anklebot. Upon analysis, subjects were stratified based on average admission gait speed on the 10 Meter Walk Test at comfortable pace according to clinically established gait speed performance groups: low (\<0.4m/sec), moderate (0.4m/sec-0.8m/sec) and high (\>0.8m/sec) functioning.

Treatment:

Device: seated robot-assisted ankle therapy