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Usability Testing of a Bilateral Activities of Daily Exercise Robot for Stroke Therapy

NCT02882646 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2024-10-08

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Summary

In stroke rehabilitation, unilateral training of the impaired limb after stroke is often the frequent strategy used over bilateral ones. However, the clinical need for bilateral training is supported by evidence that shows that unilateral training of the impaired limb does not automatically restore bimanual coordination and function. Increased focused is needed on developing more robot-assisted therapy that can train the impaired arm bilaterally and unilaterally. Controlling these robots is often difficult and requires a better understanding of the coupling effects of the left and right hand before and after a stroke. There is a need to develop robot-assisted therapy devices that can address coupled and uncoupled bimanual movements as well as symmetry as well as asymmetry in context of human bimanual actions along with the intermanual division of labor in various ADL tasks. This study focuses on bilateral training and the use of bio-inspired control algorithms to understand impairment and recovery on Bimanual Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) by stroke subjects in terms of the arm kinematics. Healthy subjects and those with hemiplegia due to a stroke or cerebral palsy will be evaluated by a member of the research team and asked to perform a battery of tasks to test the viability and usability of a bilateral robot system called BiADLER, which allows patients to complete daily tasks with varying levels of assistance to adapt task performance to each individual subject's performance. Subjects will to provide feedback to the researchers on their observations and thoughts about the therapy devices.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Bi-ADLER

Subjects will be asked to use the Bi-ADLER for 60 minutes. All subjects will be seated on the Bi-ADLER and asked to perform a battery of bimanual evaluation tasks (creating ovals, standard ADL tasks like pouring, reaching, drinking etc).

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Michelle J Johnson, PhD · Penn Medicine Rittenhouse

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-04-30
Primary Completion
2021-06-30
Completion
2021-06-30

Countries

  • United States

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