NCT05506826

Effects of Mirror Therapy Versus Fine Motor Activities on Hand Function in Chronic Stroke Patients.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 28 (actual)
• Sponsor: Riphah International University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 35 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

to compare the effects of the Mirror therapy and fine motor activities on hand function in chronic stroke patients

Detailed description

This study will be conducted to compare the effects of mirror therapy and fine motor activities in chronic stroke patients. Total Twenty eight hemiplegic patients will be recruited according to inclusion criteria and data will be collected from Riphah rehabilitation centre Lahore and Mian Munshi Hospital Lahore (DHQ). The patients will randomly assigned to a mirror therapy group (n=14) and Fine motor activities group (n=14). The patients in both groups will undergo conventional therapy for 4 weeks (60minutes/day, 5 days/week). The patients will be evaluated at the beginning and end of the treatment by Fugl- Meyer Aassessment (FMA) wolf motor assessment scale and the Functional Independence Measure (FIM). After approval from ethical committee, data collection will be started and informed consent will be taken from all patients.

Conditions

• Stroke, Ischemic
• Acute Pain
• Weakness, Muscle

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	fine motor activities	patient will perform fine motor exercises like therapy ball exercises, therapy putty exercises, table top exercises, moving beans, stacking pennies and rubber band resistances exercises etc. for 30 minutes along with conventional therapy
OTHER	conventional therapy and mirror therapy	Patients in this group will receive conventional therapy for four weeks sixty minutes per day, five days per week. In addition, receive thirty minutes of mirror therapy, which included periodic wrist flexion-extension, flexion and extension exercises of fingers on non paralyzed limb

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-01
• Primary completion: 2022-08-20
• Completion: 2022-08-20
• First posted: 2022-08-18
• Last updated: 2022-11-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan