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Automatic Versus Intentional Movement Exercises to Enhance Arm Functions After Stroke

NCT01565044 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 26

Last updated 2025-12-19

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Summary

Many patients retain upper-limb motor impairment following stroke. Most conventional rehabilitation techniques are aimed to improve motor intentional movement by repeated exercises. These techniques require attentional load and are responsible for significant fatigue that probably represents a limiting factor. Alternatively, the automatic control of action is now well documented. A rehabilitation method based on this principle could allow recovery of more natural movements.

Hypothesis: Stimulating automatic motricity improves upper-limb motor skills compared with a rehabilitation technique based on intentional movements.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

motor training

Subject will perform prehension exercises on an automated table. After the initiation of the arm movement, the target to be grasped is programmed to move in order to stimulate automatic motricity.

OTHER

motor training

Subject will perform prehension exercises on an automated table. After the initiation of the arm movement, the target to be grasped will remain static in order to involve intentional motricity.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospices Civils de Lyon

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-09-27
Primary Completion
2017-11-03
Completion
2017-11-03

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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