NCT02247674

Bilateral Movement Training for People With Stroke

Effects of Computer-aided Interlimb Force Coupling Training on Paretic Hand and Arm Motor Control Following Chronic Stroke

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 33 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chueh-Ho Lin · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 28 Years – 81 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators hypothesized that bilateral handgrip force training would result in significant improvements in paretic hand, arm movements and daily functional performances. In order to investigate whether the improvement of paretic hand could facilitate the motor recovery of paretic arm and functional performances, the investigators also hypothesized that motor recovery and functional performances improvements of paretic arm and hand have strongly correlation.

Detailed description

Objective: To investigate the training effects of interlimb force coupling training on paretic hand and upper extremity outcomes in patients with chronic stroke; to analyze the relationship between motor recovery of paretic hand, arm and functional abilities. Design: A double-blind randomized controlled trial with outcome assessment at baseline and after 4 weeks intervention. Setting: Department of physical medicine and rehabilitation in Taipei Veterans General Hospital. Participants: Thirty-three subjects (mean age = 55.1 ± 10.5 y/o) with chronic stroke were recruited and randomized assigned to training (n=16) and control group (n=17). Interventions: Interlimb force coupling training task included different gripforce generation on the both hands. Main Outcome Measures: Barthel Index (BI), and the upper extremity motor control of Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA-UE), Motor Assessment Score (MAS), and the Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT). All assessment was executed by a blinded evaluator, and data management and statistical analysis was also conducted by a blinded statistic researcher.

Conditions

• Stroke
• Cerebrovascular Accident
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Brain Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Bilateral movement training	Exercise training of bilateral isometric handgrip force training group consisted of 60 minutes of bilateral isometric handgrip force training 3 days per week for 4 weeks (total 12 sessions)

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-11-01
• Primary completion: 2013-05-01
• Completion: 2013-10-01
• First posted: 2014-09-25
• Last updated: 2014-09-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan