Upper Limb Reeducation Across Life Span (ULReed)

Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

Status: Completed

Conditions: Eating Disorders; Upper Extremity Dysfunction; Cognitive Decline; Cerebral Palsy; Dementia

Treatments: Other: Ready2E.A.T. PROGRAM

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03997591

IPL10062019

Details and patient eligibility

About

Program Ready2E.A.T. was developed to be tested in the upper limb reeducation on population at risk, such as:

• Children with dysfunction
• Cognitive impaired elderly
• Dementia people

Full description

Program Ready2E.A.T. consists on the training of specific upper limb tasks, including:

• reaching during attention tasks
• reaching during memory tasks
• reaching during sequential motor tasks
• reaching during fine hand movements

This program has been tested as a measure of functional status (cognitive and motor habilities) in population with different risks; It also has been tested as an effective program for reeducation in cognitive affected population.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• people with 60years old with cognitive decline
• children aging 6-10 years old with cognitive and motor dysfunction
• dysfunction in feeding participation

Exclusion criteria

• participants that do not understand 2 simnultaneous verbal commands

Trial design

15 participants in 2 patient groups

Conventional therapy

Description:

Group doing conventional rehabilitation was assessed at T0 and then after 6 weeks of conventional therapy (occupational therapy, physical therapy, aquatic therapy, musicotherapy, others)

Treatment:

Other: Ready2E.A.T. PROGRAM

Ready2E.A.T. therapy

Description:

Group doing Ready2E.A.T. program received a mean of 1 hour per week and was assessed at T0 and then after 6 weeks of this program implementation.

Treatment:

Other: Ready2E.A.T. PROGRAM