NCT04622189

Action Observation Training for Upper Limb Rehabilitation in Stroke Patients

Neuro-rehabilitation of Upper Limb Stroke Patients Through Motor Resonance and Mirror Neurons

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital of Ferrara · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the changes in physiological parameters and clinical scales resulting from treatment with AOT (action observation training) in subjects with subacute stroke. Furthermore, this study assess the perception of applicability and satisfaction degree for this kind of treatments.

Detailed description

After being informed about the study, all patients give written informed consent and will undergo a 1-week screening period to determine eligibility for study entry. Patient who meet the eligibility requirements will be given clinical and instrumental assessments before the start of treatment (T0) after 3 weeks (T1), at the end of the treatment (T2) and after 6 months (T3). A training program of 4 weeks including 250 videos of every day actions has been developed. Videos includes transitive and intransitive actions. Each week has a five day program, each day is divided in three sessions, in each session there are observation and imitation and attentional questions. AOT is always performed in conjunction with the conventional rehabilitation program.

Conditions

• Stroke Rehabilitation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Action observation training	Integration of four main tools: * PATIENT INTERFACE, which has been implemented to present stimuli with a user friendly interface, with personalized menu and with the possibility to manage the training program; user personal page containing user information and history of activities with daily performance are stored too. * MOCAP during action imitation will be recorded using MindMotion infrared camera to capture the trunk movement while an electromagnetic system (Trackstar from NDI) will be used to record fingers fine movements. * EEG data will be collected during video observation using an Enobio wireless system integrated with the platform.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-06-11
• Primary completion: 2021-12-09
• Completion: 2021-12-09
• First posted: 2020-11-09
• Last updated: 2022-05-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy