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Motor Adaptation by Error Augmentation Force Field in Healthy Peoples' Upper Extremity

NCT02780817 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2016-05-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Inducing a systematic perturbation forces on the hand during arm reaching movement may improve adaptation. Error-augmentation (EA) training is relatively new concept in motor learning intended to promote the adaptation process. In this study participants will practice one session of training on 3D robotic device. Healthy volunteers will be randomly divided into two groups: study and control. The study group will carry out the training session with EA forces. The control group will carry out the same procedure with null force field. Outcome measure are the average size of trajectory error from the straight line and level of exertion (borg scale).

Conditions

  • Healthy Volunteers

Interventions

OTHER

Error enhancement

Participants will sit in front of a 3D robotic device and grab the robotic arm handle. The participants will carry out arm reaching tasks appear on a screen on front of them. Each game of tasks will lasts 2 minutes. The participants will carry out one game to be accustomed to device, followed by one game with null force field, followed by 5 games as the main intervention with error enhancement force field, and another last game with null force field.

OTHER

Control group

Participants will sit in front of a 3D robotic device and grab the robotic arm handle. The participants will carry out arm reaching tasks appear on a screen on front of them. Each game of tasks will lasts 2 minutes. The participants will carry out one game to be accustomed to device and another 7 games with null force field.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Haifa

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Eli Carmeli, PhD. · Professor

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-12-31
Primary Completion
2017-05-31
Completion
2017-05-31

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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