Muscle Activity of the Upper Limb Between Task-Specific and Robot Assisted Training Among Individuals Post Stroke

Completed

• Conditions: Stroke
• Interventions: Diagnostic Test: The RAT and The TST

• Registration Number: NCT03575481
• Lead Sponsor: Hadassah Medical Organization

Brief Summary

The investigators compared the activity and fatigue of upper extremity muscles, pain levels, subject satisfaction levels, perceived exertion, and number of repetitions in Task-Specific Training (TST) compared with Robot-Assisted Training (RAT) in individuals post-stroke.

Detailed Description

Twenty sub-acute post stroke subjects received one TST and one RAT. They marked the pain level in their paretic extremity before and after each session. Muscle activity levels and fatigue and number of repetitions were monitored during each session. The subjective assessment questionnaire of treatment and the Borg scale were administered post-session.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-09-30
• Primary Completion: 2017-03-01
• Study Completion: 2017-03-29
• Status Verified: 2018-06
• Study First Submitted: 2018-06-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-06-28
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-06-28
• Study First Posted: 2018-07-02
• Last Update Posted: 2018-07-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 20

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 to 85 year old individuals up to three months following stroke
• National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score 3-15
• Intact cognitive function
• mild to moderate weakness of the affected hand
• normal or corrected eyesight

Exclusion Criteria

• neurological, cardio-vascular or orthopedic impairment, unrelated to the stroke, which restricts upper limb function
• a pace-maker

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Post stroke patients	The RAT and The TST	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Muscle fatigue	30 minutes	Fatigue expressed by calculation of the the difference between the median frequency in the first 5 minutes and last five minutes of a 30 minute session
Muscle activity	30 minutes	The activity levels of electromyographic signal (in millivolts) will be averaged for the duration of the recording.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hadassah Medical Center; 🇮🇱 Jerusalem, Israel