NCT03171077

Virtual Rehabilitation and PNF in the Recovery of the Motor Function Post Stroke

Effectiveness of Virtual Rehabilitation and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation in the Recovery of the Motor Function Post Stroke: A Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Federal University of Bahia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of use the Nintendo Wii® (NW) and therapeutic exercises by the method Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) in the recovery of the motor function of poststroke hemiparesis patients.

Detailed description

Randomised clinical trial (RCT) will be held in following the recommendations of the CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials). This RCT have longitudinal and prospective feature, held at the Neurosciences Clinic located at the Clinic Professor Francisco Magalhães Neto the HUPES Complex / Federal University of Bahia from June 2015 until June 2016. In the initial evaluation were obtained by a trained examiner and blinded to the allocation of participants, all personal data of all patients, as well as evaluations of balance and quality of life through specific validated scales: 1\. Fugl Meyer scale (FMS); The investigators employ an experimental program of therapeutic exercises for the PNF method and virtual rehabilitation with NW, for a period of two months, with sessions two times a week for 50 minutes (a total of 16 sessions).

Conditions

• Stroke
• Cerebrovascular Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Virtual Rehabilitation	It is the use of the NW games for rehabilitation of balance in post-stroke patients.
OTHER	PNF Method	It is the use of the therapeutic exercises based on the PNF diagonals for rehabilitation of balance in post-stroke patients.
OTHER	Virtual Rehabilitation and PNF Method	It is the use of the exercises based on the PNF diagonals and of the NW for rehabilitation of balance in post-stroke patients.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-06-10
• Primary completion: 2017-10-30
• Completion: 2018-01-30
• First posted: 2017-05-31
• Last updated: 2018-04-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil