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Mirror-Box Training in Adults With Chronic Hemiparesis Secondary to Stroke

NCT00643864 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3

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Summary

The purpose of this project is to assess the effects of four weeks of mirror-box training on weakness of one arm secondary to stroke. Primary measures are function and strength. Secondary measures will evaluate muscle tone, flexibility, and the subject's perception of their everyday function and improvement. Research Hypothesis: For chronic upper limb hemiparesis secondary to stroke, four weeks of mirror-box training with movement of the unaffected limb only results in a mean increase of 10 points on the Fugl-Meyer Test of Motor Recovery (Upper Extremity).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

mirror training

Training will be performed one-on-one by an investigator in a quiet room, one hour a day, five days a week, for four weeks. Attendance will be recorded. The mirror-box apparatus consists of an 18" x 24" vertical mirror secured in the center of a wooden platform. During training, the mirror-box will be placed on a table in front of the subject so that the mirror is perpendicular to the chest, slightly lateral of midline. Subjects will be asked to attend to the mirror reflection of their unaffected hand performing a series of tasks, while keeping their affected limb still. At the end of the four week training period, posttests will be administered by the same Occupational Therapist who performed the pretests.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Wake Forest University Health Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mark A Hirsch, PhD · CHS

  • Flora M Hammond, MD · CHS

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
30 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-02-28
Primary Completion
2012-02-29
Completion
2012-02-29

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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