Comparison of Two Rehabilitation Strategies in Patients With Hemiparesis One Year or More After Stroke

NCT02202954 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 124

Last updated 2017-06-20

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Summary

In the situation of motor limitations that people often experience after stroke, current health systems cannot provide for the daily amount and duration of high intensity muscle stretch and motor training that would be required over protracted periods to involve muscle and brain plasticity. For patients with sufficient cognitive abilities, Guided Self-rehabilitation Contracts allow implementing stretch and training at high intensity and may result in meaningful functional improvement in chronic stages, as long as discipline persists over at least a year span.

This single blind control protocol will evaluate Guided Self-rehabilitation Contracts as against conventional therapy in the community, for a one year duration in persons with chronic hemiparesis after stroke.

Conditions

  • Hemiparesis

Interventions

OTHER

Guided Self-rehabilitation Contract

In Guided Self-rehabilitation Contracts, the therapist acts as a coach, in the sports' sense, providing double guidance: technical, selecting and teaching the required exercises to the patient using infrequent thorough visits, for example every month; Psychological, binding with the patient on the contract. The patient agrees to perform the prescribed daily stretch postures and rapid alternating movements over the long term and to document this work in a written diary.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jean-Michel GRACIES, MD, PhD · Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-03-31
Primary Completion
2017-06-30
Completion
2017-09-30

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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