NCT02199093

Functional Rehabilitation of Upper Limb Apraxia in Patients Poststroke

Functional Rehabilitation of Upper Limb Apraxia in Patients Poststroke: Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad de Granada · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 25 Years – 95 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of a mixed intervention of occupational therapy (rehabilitative and compensatory approach) at home to upper limb apraxia in mild and moderate patients post stroke in comparison to a control group with a traditional health educative protocol.

Detailed description

Apraxia is a neurological disorder characterized by a loss of ability to execute and carry out skilled movements and gestures despite intact motor and sensory systems, coordination and comprehension. Upper limb apraxia comprises a wide spectrum of higher motor disorders caused by acquired brain disease, affecting the performance of skilled movements carried out by the upper limbs. Few data are available on the effectiveness of interventions in this disorder and no exists studies that implement a mixed intervention (rehabilitative and compensatory ) of Occupational Therapy in these patients at home.

Conditions

• Stroke
• Apraxias

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Functional Rehabilitation of apraxia	The intervention will cover every type of approaches related with upper limb apraxia. We will use different kinds of tools to activate cerebral networks implied on apraxia, for facilitating the cerebral neuroplasticity in the recovering of the patient. On the other hand, when the function can not be improved, we will provide skills and strategies for enhance the environment adaptation and increasing the autonomy and independence.
OTHER	Traditional health educative protocol	The traditional health educative protocol consist in an educational workshop for patients and caregivers where they are taught the implications of apraxia in their daily live, kind of errors of apraxia for gaining consciousness of the syndrome, and some strategies to facilitate the adaptation of the patient in her house.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-05-01
• Primary completion: 2018-09-01
• Completion: 2018-09-01
• First posted: 2014-07-24
• Last updated: 2018-10-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain