Grip Movement Training for Adults With Fine Motor Limitation

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Hand Injuries and Disorders

• Registration Number: NCT03750045
• Lead Sponsor: University of Mogi das Cruzes

Brief Summary

This study is to test the system composed by a 3D virtual environment, attached to the Leap Motion, evaluating its effects on the rehabilitation of hand movements in patients with motor alteration.

Detailed Description

In order to elaborate the virtual environment, softwares for 3D content creation were used. The virtual environment is formed by four phases, each one having three spheres that are supposed to be inserted, one by one, into a hole located on the scenario floor. Each phase presents a level of difficulty, from pushing the object to performing the grip movement. By the end of each phase, a log file is generated with the time spent on it.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-08-01
• Primary Completion: 2016-08-15
• Study Completion: 2017-04-12
• Status Verified: 2018-11
• Study First Submitted: 2018-11-19
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-11-20
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-11-20
• Study First Posted: 2018-11-21
• Last Update Posted: 2018-11-21

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 10

Inclusion Criteria

• men and women with age equal or higher than 18 years old;
• having clinical diagnosis of neurological pathology;
• presenting fine motor coordination deficit and in grip strength;
• being able to understand instructions in order to perform the tasks of the virtual environment;
• minimum score of 23/24 (from a total of 30) in the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)

Exclusion Criteria

• Not accepting to participate in this research

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Virtual environment	120 minutes	The intervention was composed by 8 sessions of 15 minutes each, where the volunteers used a virtual environment attached it to a Leap Motion, which is a sensor that allows to capture the movements that are produced by the hands and reproduce them in a computer through a 3D virtual environment in order to stimulate the execution of their finer movements.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Wooden box	Immediately after at the Session 1, 4 and 8.	The motor coordination evaluation was made in the first, fourth and eighth sessions. Each volunteer used three balls, or spheres, of different sizes (small, medium, large). The objective was to insert each ball in each orifice. The time was measured with a chronometer.
Dynamometer JAMAR	Immediately after at the Session 1, 4 and 8.	The grip strength (kgf) was evaluated in the first, fourth and eighth sessions.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Terigi Augusto Scardovelli; 🇧🇷 Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, Brazil