NCT02749643

Functional Outcome Measures With Vibrotactile Feedback to Prostheses

The Effects of Adding Vibrotactile Feedback to Prostheses on Functional Outcome Measures of Transradial Amputation Prosthetic Users

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hadassah Medical Organization · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Investigators wish to evaluate the effects of adding VTF to upper limb prostheses on functional outcome measures of upper limb prosthetic users.

Detailed description

Investigators will perform three experiments: 1. Investigators will add vibrotactile feedback to prosthetic users during the execution of a standardized functional test and performance of simple grasping tasks, with a disruption to the normal visual feedback, and examine whether their performance and arm kinematics are improved with tactile feedback; 2. Investigators will examine the effects of adding the feedback to a prosthesis on the performance and visual attention during a dual task assignment in prosthetic users, and 3. Investigators will provide prosthetic users with the feedback, to use it at their natural surroundings for a week, and study the reported activity and satisfaction levels.

Conditions

• Unilateral Transradial Amputation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Vibrotactile feedback system

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-04-01
• Primary completion: 2018-02-01
• Completion: 2018-02-01
• First posted: 2016-04-25
• Last updated: 2018-06-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel