NCT00564005

Mechanism and Efficacy of Rehabilitation Approaches

Mechanisms and Long-term Effects of Separate vs. Coupled Rehabilitation Approaches After Stroke

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Identify the possible mechanisms and the relative effectiveness of existing rehabilitation approaches that target upper extremity deficits of stroke patients on the ground that these approaches are based on neuroplasticity principles and sound motor control theories.

Detailed description

Comparisons of constraint-induced therapy (CIT) vs. bilateral arm training (BIT)vs. combined therapy were made. Stroke patients will receive one of these three approaches and be evaluated pre- and post-treatment. the treatment will last 3 weeks and 5 days per week. The evaluation will include clinical measures of motor function, ADL, and quality of life, kinematic performance, and activation patterns of cortex.

Conditions

• Cerebrovascular Accidents

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Constraint-induced therapy (CIT)	restraint of the unaffected arm and practice of the affected arm
OTHER	Bilateral arm training (BAT)	bilateral symmetric, repetitive arm training
OTHER	Combined therapy (CT)	combined different treatment approaches
BEHAVIORAL	Control intervention	Conventional treatment program

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-01-01
• Primary completion: 2010-12-01
• Completion: 2010-12-01
• First posted: 2007-11-27
• Last updated: 2015-02-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan