NCT06270459

Telerehabilitation Robotics for Upper Limb Rehabilitation After STroke

Telerehabilitation Robotics for Upper Limb Rehabilitation After STroke (TRUST): a Study of Multi-cluster Adoption

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 54 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Tan Tock Seng Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

There has been an observed decrease in motor and functional ability and non-use of the impaired limb in chronic patients. This is due to the immediate drop in intensive daily therapy (5 days per week for 3 hours/day) that is usually provided during the inpatient (acute) phase upon discharge from the hospital. In this study, the investigators plan to address the low dosage of therapy in the post-acute discharge phase for stroke survivors.

Detailed description

Current models of care in public healthcare institutions (PHI) cannot provide daily or frequent access to RAT without increasing burden and expenditure in direct healthcare resources. Shifting from the existing hospital-based model of care towards a home-centered model based deploying portable RAT, would ensure that patients can continue to receive intensive therapy after discharge and during the chronic phase of stroke. More recently, RAT deploying table-top, portable, less complex, upper limb end effectors enable clinic-to-home transitions may offer decentralized therapy, minimally supervised by therapists as a potential means to bridge various gaps in access to RAT such as scheduling, physical or social barriers, distances and hospital lockdowns related to viral pandemics. This study aims to explore the utilization, feasibility and acceptability using a multi-cluster deployment and adoption of a decentralised robot-aided telerehabilitation (RATR) clinical programme supported by AI-enabled platform, with remote monitoring by clinic therapists

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	HMAN Robot	The HMAN is certified as a CE class 2A upper limb rehabilitation robot suitable for hospital, clinic and home-based use in 2020 by Health Sciences Authority, Singapore. It has since been employed in post-stroke neurorehabilitation therapy and assessment of sensorimotor functions in stroke patients.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-11-01
• Primary completion: 2025-08-14
• Completion: 2025-08-14
• First posted: 2024-02-21
• Last updated: 2025-04-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Singapore