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Comparison of Blended Care Outpatient Neurorehabilitation With Traditional Outpatient Neurorehabilitation

NCT07458308 · Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2026-04-13

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Summary

What is this study about? Outpatient neurorehabilitation (therapy after leaving the hospital) is an important follow-up treatment for people who have had a stroke, brain bleeding, or serious head injury. It helps improve problems with movement, speech, memory, or daily activities.

At the same time, there are not enough healthcare professionals, and healthcare costs are rising. Because of this, we need new and more efficient ways to provide therapy.

One possible solution is telerehabilitation. This means patients do part of their therapy at home using video calls and apps. Early studies show that this can work well. However, in Switzerland it is still rarely used. One reason is that digital therapies are often not paid for, and there is still limited scientific proof of how effective they are.

In this study, the investigators want to find out how well a combination of traditional in-person therapy and digital therapy at home works. The goal is to make treatment more modern, effective, and affordable - benefiting patients, therapists, and the healthcare system.

How is the study organized?

Participants in the study are randomly divided into two groups.

Group 1:

First, participants have three weeks of combined therapy:

1. therapy day per week at the hospital.
2. therapy days per week at home via Microsoft Teams video calls. On home days, participants also complete exercises using apps provided by their therapists.

After that, participants have three weeks of therapy fully at the hospital (3 days per week).

Group 2:

First, participants have three weeks of therapy at the hospital (3 days per week).

After that, participants have three weeks of combined therapy (hospital + home video therapy).

Both groups receive the same types of therapy, just in a different order. This is called a crossover design.

Because this is one of the first studies of its kind, the investigators are starting with a small number of participants. This is called a pilot study.

Conditions

  • Stroke
  • Intracerebral Haemorrhage
  • Brain Trauma

Interventions

OTHER

Blended care outpatient neurorehabilitation

Combination of telerehabilitation in the patients' home setting and outpatient neurorehabilitation on site

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Luzerner Kantonsspital

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-04-07
Primary Completion
2029-03-31
Completion
2029-06-30

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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