NCT04574687

Effects of Action Observation Therapy on Fine Motor Skills of Upper Limb Functions in Chronic Stroke Patients.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: Riphah International University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 30 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will be conducted to evaluate the outcomes of action observation therapy on fine motor skills of affected upper limb among patients with chronic stroke.

Detailed description

The data for study will be collected for the duration of 5 months, data will be collected at 1st, 4th, 8th, 12th and then at 16th week of follow up. It is a Randomized Control Trial. Patients will be selected by Consecutive Sampling from Ittefaq Hospital Trust, Lahore. All patients were right handed prior to stroke. Screening tools used will be Canadian Neurological Scale, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), the Bell Barrage test, and the ideomotor apraxia test (SpinnlerRognoni).Tests for assessment will be Fugl-Meyer test (FM) (of the upper limb), Frenchay Arm test (FAT), Box and Block test (BBT), Modified Ashworth Scale (AS) and Functional Independence Measure Motor items (FIMM). The SPSS version 21 will be used for analyzing data. The descriptive data will be expressed in Frequency and Percentages, while within the group differences will be measured by Mixed Model Anova.

Conditions

• Chronic Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Neurodevelopmental Techniques	)Conventional treatment protocol including active and active-assissted ROM exercises. (b)Proprioceptive neuro-muscular facilitation techniques. (c)Neuromuscular Developmental Techniques.
OTHER	Action observation Therapy	(a) active range of motion (AROM) exercises (10 min), (b) reaching movement or object manipulation (10 min), and (c) UE functional tasks (15 min). + Conventional treatment protocol as in group A

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-15
• Primary completion: 2020-06-20
• Completion: 2020-06-28
• First posted: 2020-10-05
• Last updated: 2021-03-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan