NCT01565044

Automatic Versus Intentional Movement Exercises to Enhance Arm Functions After Stroke

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 26 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Many patients retain upper-limb motor impairment following stroke. Most conventional rehabilitation techniques are aimed to improve motor intentional movement by repeated exercises. These techniques require attentional load and are responsible for significant fatigue that probably represents a limiting factor. Alternatively, the automatic control of action is now well documented. A rehabilitation method based on this principle could allow recovery of more natural movements. Hypothesis: Stimulating automatic motricity improves upper-limb motor skills compared with a rehabilitation technique based on intentional movements.

Conditions

• Stroke
• Upper-limb Paresis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	motor training	Subject will perform prehension exercises on an automated table. After the initiation of the arm movement, the target to be grasped is programmed to move in order to stimulate automatic motricity.
OTHER	motor training	Subject will perform prehension exercises on an automated table. After the initiation of the arm movement, the target to be grasped will remain static in order to involve intentional motricity.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-09-27
• Primary completion: 2017-11-03
• Completion: 2017-11-03
• First posted: 2012-03-28
• Last updated: 2025-12-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France