Shoulder, or Elbow, or Wrist: What Should we Train First After a Stroke?

NCT00453843 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 190

Last updated 2012-10-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

We will test on persons with chronic impairment due to stroke:

1. whether the order in which robot therapy is delivered influences outcomes (shoulder-and-elbow before wrist vs. wrist before shoulder-and-elbow).
2. whether we should train the shoulder, elbow, and wrist at the same time or on different days.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

rehabilitation robotics

sequence of intervention

PROCEDURE

Movement therapy

sequence of intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Burke Medical Research Institute

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

    lead NIH

Principal Investigators

  • Hermano I Krebs, PhD · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-06-30
Primary Completion
2010-12-31
Completion
2010-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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