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Treatment for Movement Problems in Elderly Stroke Patients

NCT00059696 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2016-09-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

After a stroke, many patients are left with an impaired arm. Restricting the use of the good arm may improve the use of the bad arm. In "Constraint-Induced Movement" therapy (CI therapy), the good arm is put in a sling to force increased use of the bad arm. The bad arm is also trained each day for several weeks. This study will evaluate the effectiveness of CI therapy in patients with chronic disability after stroke and whether the rate of recovery is decreased in elderly patients.

Conditions

  • Cerebrovascular Disorders

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Edward Taub, Ph.D. · University of Alabama at Birmingham

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1999-12-31
Primary Completion
2004-11-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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