NCT06885294

Physiotherapy/hypnosis for AVC Patients

Impact of Physiotherapy Combined to Hypnosis on Superior Limb Functional Capacities of AVC Patients

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 84 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Liege · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Impact of physical therapy with hypnosis on the functional capacity of the upper limb in stroked patients.

Detailed description

The cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is a pathology generating many disabled people. Physiotherapy is one of the usual rehabilitation techniques for a patient with sequelae of ischemia or cerebral hemorrhage. Combined with another therapeutic approach, hypnosis, it could increase the patient's motor performance.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Physiotherapy	Stroke patients will be randomly assigned to join one of the three groups. The first group will undergo a pre-treatment evaluation, receive 6 sessions of physiotherapy (2 sessions per week, approximately 20-30 minutes each), and undergo a post-treatment evaluation after 1 month. After another month without any treatment, they will undergo a third and final assessment. All evaluations will last approximately 1 hour.
BEHAVIORAL	Physiotherapy and Hypnosis	Stroke patients will be randomly assigned to join one of the three groups. The second group will undergo a pre-treatment evaluation, receive 6 sessions of physiotherapy combined with hypnosis (2 sessions per week, approximately 20-30 minutes each), and undergo a post-treatment evaluation after 1 month. Patients will continue their standard physiotherapy care during these 4 weeks. After another month without any treatment, they will undergo a third and final assessment. All evaluations will last approximately 1 hour.
BEHAVIORAL	Control group Physiotherapy and Hypnosis	The control group will be assessed initially and then after 4 weeks. After the second assessment, they will receive 6 sessions of physiotherapy combined with hypnosis (2 sessions per week, approximately 20-30 minutes each), and undergo a post-treatment evaluation after 1 month. All evaluation sessions will last approximately 1 hour.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-03-18
• Primary completion: 2025-12-30
• Completion: 2026-07-30
• First posted: 2025-03-20
• Last updated: 2025-03-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium