NCT05601115

The Effect of Combined Robotic Hand Therapy and Conventional Therapy in Stroke Patients

The Effect of Combined Robotic Hand Therapy and Conventional Therapy to Rehabilitation Outcomes in Stroke Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

RAT is an innovative approach that includes intensive, repeatable, interactive and personalized applications.The aim of tihis study is to investigate the effect of robotic hand therapy added to conventional rehabilitation on rehabilitation outcomes in stroke patients.

Detailed description

Effective therapy in stroke rehabilitation should include repetitive, functional and task-specific exercises with high intensity and duration. In this context, in addition to traditional treatments, many new treatment approaches have come up in recent years. Robot-assisted therapy (RAT) is one of these new treatment approaches. RAT is an innovative approach that includes intensive, repeatable, interactive and personalized applications. It is seen that robotic systems are very suitable for the patient to receive more intense and task-oriented motor training by integrating with other rehabilitation approaches. Considering the scarcity of studies on robotic hand therapy, it was seen that larger scale and long-term studies are needed. In this study, investigators aimed to investigate the effect of robotic hand therapy added to conventional rehabilitation on motor functions and quality of life in stroke patients. Patients will be evaluated pretreatment, posttreatment and 3 months later after treatment. Evaluation parameters consist of Brunnstrom Staging, Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS), Fugl Meyer Assessment of The Upper Extremity, Functional Independence Measure Scale (FIM) and ABILHAND Questionnaire, Stroke Impact Scale (SIS), Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale (SS-QOL) and SF-36 Quality of Life Questionnaire. We think that robot-assisted therapy will contribute to the improvement of hand functions and quality of life in stroke patients.

Conditions

• Stroke
• Robot Assisted Therapy
• Robotic Rehabilitation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Robot assisted therapy	In addition to the conventional treatment for 60 minutes in the RYT group, it was planned to perform robotic rehabilitation with a hand-finger robot \[Amadeo (Tyromotion, Graz, Austria)\] for 30 minutes, accompanied by a physiotherapist who is trained in the field of robotic rehabilitation and has at least 5 years of experience
PROCEDURE	Conventional Therapy Group	An exercise program consisting of 45 minutes of range of motion exercises, strengthening exercises, balance exercises and neurophysiological exercises (Brunstroom exercises) and 15 minutes of NMES was planned, accompanied by a physiotherapist experienced for at least 5 years in stroke rehabilitation, in the conventional therapy group.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-12-01
• Primary completion: 2023-05-01
• Completion: 2023-06-01
• First posted: 2022-11-01
• Last updated: 2023-07-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)