NCT06997978

Efficacy of Tele-rehabilitation Intervention on Hand, Cognitive Functions & Depression of Hemiparetic Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ahmed Alshimy · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 45 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are used in telerehabilitation to deliver rehabilitation treatments to patients in their homes or other locations.

Detailed description

Thirty hemiparetic patients with mild hand dysfunction of both sexes participated in the study (Age range was 45- to 55-year-old); 15 patients in the control group (GB) received a selected hand rehabilitation program, whereas 15 patients in the study group (GA) received telerehabilitation intervention. The 9HPT (Nine-hole peg test), FMUE (Fugl Meyer upper extremity), MOCA (Montreal cognitive assessment scale), REHACOM system, and the BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY QUESTIONNAIRE were used to evaluate the patients in both groups before and after the treatment program began.

Conditions

• Hemiparesis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Tele-rehabilitation	Patients at the Telerehabilitation group are contacted via laptops that have cameras, microphones, and a reliable internet connection. The therapist's laptop camera is positioned so the patient may watch the therapist while the therapist demonstrates the exercises. After the therapist performs the exercise on himself, the patient must see the therapist via a laptop camera and then perform the same activity again.
OTHER	Hand rehabilitation program	1. Free exercises: 1\. Wrist flexion and extension 2. Wrist side movement 3. Thumb flexion and extension 4-Finger opposition 5. Palm up and down 2. Ball exercises: 1. Ball grip 2. Finger flexion 3. Thumb extend 4. The pinch exercise 5. Opposition 6- Side squeeze 7\. Extend out 3. Household exercises 1. Roll movement 2. Wrist curl 3. Extending the wrist 4. Pen exercises 1. Pinch and release 2. Pen spine 5. Exercises with coins 1. Coin drop 2. Coin stacking

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-01
• Primary completion: 2024-11-01
• Completion: 2024-11-20
• First posted: 2025-05-31
• Last updated: 2025-05-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt