Virtually Assisted Home Rehabilitation After Acute STroke (VAST-rehab)

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Other: Telerehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05659784

HSC-MS-20-0384

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility of a virtual education and virtual visit program in engaging patients with rehabilitation at home after stroke.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Informed consent provided by the subject or legally authorized representative.
• Occurrence of a hemorrhagic or ischemic stroke
• pre-stroke mRS less than 3
• Qualifying Stroke Event must be confirmed by CT or MRI
• Recommended to participate in self-guided or in-person rehabilitation activities by a physician or rehabilitation therapist
• Must have sufficient cognitive and language abilities to comprehend verbal commands and to carry out the study assessments
• Able to access the internet via a personal device

Exclusion criteria

• . History of neurological or other disease resulting in significant functional impairment (e.g.Parkinson's disease, motor neuron disease, moderate dementia, arthritis,contractures or fixed anatomical abnormality).
• Subjects with a severe comorbid disorder that has reasonable likelihood of limiting survival to less than 6 months.
• Any other conditions that, in the opinion of the investigators, would preclude safe and/or effective participation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Telerehabilitation

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Telerehabilitation