NCT03917511

Effects of Combined Robot-assisted Therapy With Mirror Priming in Stroke Patients

Effects of Combined Robot-assisted Therapy With Mirror Priming on Hand Function and Health-related Conditions in Patients With Stroke.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 43 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of combining robotic-assisted training and mirror therapy on upper extremity motor and physiological function, daily functions, quality of life and self-efficacy in stroke patients.

Detailed description

Based on trigger theory, this study designed a combining robotic-assisted training and mirror therapy. Before robotic-assisted training, a mirror therapy is performed to double the healing effect of robotic-assisted training. This study hypothesized that combining robotic-assisted training and mirror therapy can improve the performance of hand function in stroke patients and promote daily life function, quality of life, and self-efficacy compared to single machine-assisted therapy.

Conditions

• Chronic Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Robotic training with mirror therapy	Participants will receive 18 intervention sessions for about 6 consecutive weeks in a clinical setting (1 hour per session, 3 sessions per week). For each intervention session, participants will first receive 20 minutes mirror therapy followed by 40 minutes robotic-assisted training (robotic-assisted training includes 10 minutes active/passive training mode and 30 minutes robot-participant interactive training mode).
BEHAVIORAL	Robotic-assisted training	The training procedure will be the same as the robotic-assisted training with mirror therapy group except that sham mirror therapy will be provided in the first 20 minutes in the intervention session.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-12-17
• Primary completion: 2021-04-20
• Completion: 2021-04-20
• First posted: 2019-04-17
• Last updated: 2022-03-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan