Error Enhancement of the Velocity Component in the Course of Stroke Patients' Reaching Movements - A Pilot Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 7
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Improvement in Average Movement Trajectory Error From T1 to T2
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this pilot study was to explore the impact of enhancement of the velocity component error in the course of reaching movements of the impaired/hemiparetic limb in an acute stroke subject. We hypothesized that the method would shift velocity profiles toward the optimal, resulting in a reduction in error. A prototype robot. This robotic device system has a two-dimensional motor, basic measurement capacities, and a robotic arm which is engaged to the subject's upper-limb in a sitting position.
The enhancement of the velocity component error would shift velocity profiles toward the optimal, resulting in a reduction in error.
详细描述
The wrist of the subject is connected to the robotic arm by a strip which supports the arm but allows free movements of the wrist. This configuration allows subjects with impaired grasping ability to use the system. A bio-feedback system enables the subject to perform various functional motor tasks that are presented on the screen in front of him. The system's sensors detect motor errors or deviations from an optimal/proper movement trajectory or velocity profile. Any deviation in direction, velocity, acceleration or necessary force from the optimal trajectory results in applied robotic forces that enhance such errors/deviations. The sensors and the applied forces all work and compute in real time, so that the force measurements and the applied force are updated to the executed movement.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Diagnostic
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 40 Years 至 80 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Single stroke
- •Two to three weeks post Stroke
- •Able to understand simple commands
- •Able to perform some reaching movements with the affected arm.
- •No other neurological, neuromuscular, orthopedic disorders and visual deficit
排除标准
- •Perceptual, apraxic, or major cognitive deficits,
- •Shoulder joint subluxation or pain in the upper-limb, and
- •Spasticity > 1 (single muscle Modified Ashworth Scale).
结局指标
主要结局
Improvement in Average Movement Trajectory Error From T1 to T2
时间窗: The outcome was assessed at the begining of the rehabilitation (T1) and about 5 weeks later at the end of rehabilitation (T2).
While reaching, people have typical movement pattern of trajectory, moving the end-effector (hand) in straight line. The abnormal motor control after a stroke may cause these patients to deviate from this pattern. Our robotic device enabled us to measure the magnitude of the deviation from the optimal profile of healthy people. This was followed by a calculation of the average error the paricipants made in each treatment session. So we finally recieved a score of the average magnitude of trajectory error the participants made through a treatment session. Each treatment seesoin composed of about 100 reaching movements. The outcome measure expresses the change in the movement error from T1 to T2.
Fugl-Meyer Assessment Score
时间窗: The measured assessed at the begining of the rehabilitation (T1) and about 5 weeks later at the end of the rehabilitation (T2).
The Fugl-Meyer assessment score (FM) is a zero (disabaled function) to 66 points (high level of function) scale that evaluates the level of the motor impairment of the upper extremity, in stroke patients.
次要结局
未报告次要终点