Upper Limb Rehabilitation After Stroke Assisted With a Hybrid Electrical Stimulation (ES)-Robot System

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Device: Electrical Stimulation; Rehabilitation Robot

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02117089

ITS/033/12 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the combined training effectiveness of mechanical robot and neuromuscular electrical stimulation on upper limb rehabilitation after stroke.

Enrollment: 48 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

The recruited subjects will

• have unilateral ischemic brain injury or intracerebral hemorrhage at least 6 months after the onset of single stroke
• have moderate level of motor impairment in the affected upper limb, assessed by Fugl-Meyer Assessment (9<shoulder/elbow<27; 6<wrist/hand<18)
• have enough cognition to be able to follow the training protocol as assessed by Mini-metal State Examination (MMSE>21)
• have detectable EMG signals (3 times of the standard deviation above the baseline) from the upper limb muscles.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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48 participants in 1 patient group

Device-assisted rehabilitation

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Electrical Stimulation; Rehabilitation Robot