NCT05841108

Effect of Task-oriented Training Assisted by Force Feedback Hand Rehabilitation Robot on Finger Function in Stroke Patients With Hemiplegia

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 44 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The First Hospital of Jilin University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Over eighty percent of stroke patients experience finger-grasping dysfunction problems, compromising independence in daily life activities and quality of life. In routine training, task-oriented training is usually used for functional training of the hand, which may improve the finger grasping performance after stroke, whereby augmented therapy may lead to a better treatment outcome. Technology-supported training holds opportunities for increasing training intensity. However, most of the hand rehabilitation robots commonly used in the clinic are based on passive training mode and lacks the sensory feedback function of fingers, which is not conducive to patients completing more accurate grasping movements. The force feedback hand rehabilitation robot can make up for the above defects, but its clinical efficacy in stroke patients are not known to date. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness and added value of the force feedback hand rehabilitation robot combined with task-oriented training for stroke patients with hemiplegia.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	force feedback rehabilitation robot (SEM™ Glove)	In the experimental group, the therapists were asked to illustrate and demonstrate the motor points of the cylindrical grasping and spherical grasping movements, and the patients were instructed to imitate them with nonparalytic hand, while the latter patients wore SEM™ Glove were used for task-oriented training, such as inserting pegs, grasping a ball into a barrel, and drinking water exercises. The difficulty of task-oriented training can be adjusted according to the patient's actual condition, such as changing the shape, weight, size of the target or changing the distance, duration, and so on during training
OTHER	assisted by a therapist	The control group received task-oriented training assisted by a therapist to complete the same task as the experimental group. Therapists need to instruct patients to try to grasp items and give appropriate assistance to guarantee their completion of the grasping task. If finger extension is weak, the therapist assists the patient in extension of the digits before grasping the items, and if the finger flexion angle does not meet the grasp function needs, it should assist in flexion finger movements

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-05-04
• Primary completion: 2023-11-10
• Completion: 2023-11-10
• First posted: 2023-05-03
• Last updated: 2023-05-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China