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In-home Telerehabilitation for Quadriplegic Hand Function

NCT00656149 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2/PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 13

Last updated 2017-01-12

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Summary

1. To evaluate improvements in hand function in stable, cervical spinal cord injured (SCI) subjects treated with functional electrical stimulation (FES)-assisted exercise;
2. To compare the information obtained from existing qualitative and quantitative hand function tests with newly developed tests of sensorimotor performance.

Hypotheses:

1. the performance of tasks representative of activities of daily living (ADL) will improve with daily tele-supervised exercise of the affected hand.
2. The improvements will be greater in one exercise protocol than the other, the protocols being a) FES-assisted exercise on a workstation, b) cyclical FES, weight training and precision tasks.
3. Scores derived from quantitative data obtained from sensors on the workstation will correlate with the qualitative scores of the primary outcome measure, the ARAT hand function test.

Conditions

  • Spinal Cord Injury
  • Quadriplegia
  • Tetraplegia

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Telerehabilitation of hand function

6 weeks, 1 hr/day FES-assisted exercise therapy on a workstation, supervised over the Internet.

PROCEDURE

Conventional exercise therapy

For one hour per day subjects perform range-of-motion tasks with a wristlet weight (20 min), precision tasks with a computer mouse (20 min) and receive cyclical electrical stimulation of hand muscles (20 min).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • International Spinal Research Trust

    collaborator OTHER

  • Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Alberta

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Arthur Prochazka · University of Alberta

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-05-31
Primary Completion
2010-12-31
Completion
2010-12-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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