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Motor Skill Acquisition Between Individuals With Neurological Disorders and Healthy Individuals

NCT04503187 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 130

Last updated 2020-08-07

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Summary

Stroke survivors frequently show persistent gait deficits in their chronic stages even after years of intensive rehabilitation. This may be caused by diminished capability of re-acquiring motor skills post stroke. Thus, the overall purpose of this research project is to examine stroke survivors' capability of learning a novel leg task over 3 visits, 1-2 weeks apart. The capability of learning a new skill is then correlated with the individual's neurological functions (nerve activity and movement coordination) and her/his gait performance (gait speed, gait symmetry, and force production).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Visuomotor leg reaching task

Similar to a hand reaching task in which participants were asked to reach to a tea-cup, in a visuomotor leg reaching task, participants will be seated and given real-time visual feedback about their leg movements via a cursor display on a computer screen. The task is to control a foot mouse/marker attached to the foot and move the cursor from a start location to the target displayed on a wall screen. Three different targets, equidistant from the start location at top, top-left, and top-right screen positions, will be used for leg reaching. In each trial, one of three targets will be randomly presented and subjects will be instructed to make forward, or rightward, or leftward foot reaches to guide the cursor to one of the targets. Throughout the entire experiment, subjects are blocked from viewing leg movements by a cardboard.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Texas Woman's University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Shih-Chiao Tseng, PT, PhD · Texas Woman's University School of Physical Therapy

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-04-04
Primary Completion
2023-12-31
Completion
2024-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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