NCT02496026

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Robotic Therapy in Upper Limb Motor Recovery After Stroke

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: Auxilium Vitae Volterra · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 79 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) integrated with wrist robot-assisted treatment. In detail, the anodal stimulation on the impaired hemisphere will be used associated with a robotic treatment.

Detailed description

As for transcranial direct current stimulation a HDC kit (ATES/EB NEURO, Firenze, Italy) will be used as device. It is a new device generation of stimulator able to provide an effective stimulation pattern. As robotic device the InMotion wrist robot (Interactive Motion Technologies Inc., Watertown, MA, USA) will be used. It is an end-effector robotic device able to assist as needed the wrist movements.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	tDCS plus wrist robot therapy	Patients receive robotic rehabilitation session while tDCS stimulator is switched on
DEVICE	Sham tDCS plus wrist robot therapy	Patients receive robotic rehabilitation session while tDCS stimulator is switched off.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-07-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-20
• Completion: 2017-12-22
• First posted: 2015-07-14
• Last updated: 2020-08-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy