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Addressing Arm Non-use by Encouraging Idle-time Activity During Early Recovery From Stroke

NCT05900999 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 42

Last updated 2026-01-16

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Summary

This project evaluates the feasibility of using custom wearable technology and associated procedures to increase activity of the more-involved upper extremity during the earliest stages of recovery from stroke by increasing the amount of therapeutic exercise during idle-time. The proposed research is relevant to public health because it takes steps to mitigate a significant problem in physical rehabilitation using low-cost technology to motivate and monitor idle-time exercise without adding significantly to clinician workloads. The project aligns with the NICHD / NCMRR Research Plan on Rehabilitation by exploiting a mobile health (mHealth) and sensor-based approach to promote health and wellness through participant-engaged, data-driven, individualized care.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Feasibility of idle time exercise

The experiments in this proposal will assess the utility and subjective patient experience performing idle time exercise intervention designed to reduce learned non-use of the hemiparetic arm in the days, and weeks immediately following stroke. Exercise will be cued by wearable technology that provides vibrotactile cues similar to those provided by FitBit devices. Participants will be asked to perform simple exercises after receiving a vibration cue. In the first four sessions they will tap the more-involved wrist; in the second four sessions they will passively move the more-involved elbow through a range of motion; in the final four sessions they will actively move the more-involved elbow through a range of motion. Accelerometers in the wearable devices will monitor motion of the wrist during the exercise sessions. We will interview the participants two months later regarding how well they use the more-involved arm to perform daily activities.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Medical College of Wisconsin

    collaborator OTHER

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Marquette University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-11-29
Primary Completion
2025-02-07
Completion
2025-10-03

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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