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Graded Motor Imagery for Patients Within a Year After Stroke.

NCT01993563 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 66

Last updated 2016-04-04

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Summary

The aim of the study is to evaluate whether a graded rehabilitation approach including Implicit and explicit motor imagery training and mirror therapy is more effective than other treatments commonly provided in a neuro-rehabilitation department.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Graded Motor Imagery

GMI program includes three steps: Implicit Motor Imagery (IMI); Explicit Motor Imagery (EMI) and Mirror Box Therapy (MT). IMI included a training based on Hand Laterality Discrimination Tasks. During these tasks 60 pictures of right and left hands are projected randomly on a 15" screen. Patients are asked to choose whether the images seen are right or left and therefore to click respectively the right or the left button on a mouse. EMI training consists in imagining a movement without actual performing it. It will be introduced during IMI's last two sessions and gradually enhanced increasing the complexity of motor skills to be imagined. The therapist shows or explains in details the movements the patient have to mentally rehearsed. MT treatments will start with simply watching the unaffected hand in the mirror and increased toward functional movement. When possible, gentle movement with the affected hand will be encouraged behind the reflecting part of the mirror.

OTHER

Standard treatment

Patients will undergo to a standard treatment, that is thought to be the best option for that specific patients. In our hospital, treatment options include: motor training, functional training, occupational therapy, bilateral arm training or motor treatment using virtual reality devices.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • IRCCS San Camillo, Venezia, Italy

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Andrea Turolla, MSc · IRCCS Ospedale San Camillo

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
2014-09-30
Primary Completion
2016-10-31
Completion
2017-03-31

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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