Precision Sensorimotor Neurorehabilitation Through Personalized Stimulation Loops
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 入组人数
- 40
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- 6 min walking test (6MWT)
研究概览
简要总结
Stroke is the most common neurological disease in the elderly population and accounts for substantial disability and health care costs. Disability is largely driven by mobility deficits caused by impaired gait. Effective treatments are available to restore lower limb function and improve gait, but response to treatment varies greatly from patient to patient and often shows only small effect sizes. Addressing this heterogeneity requires personalization, a concept referred to precision neurorehabilitation.
StimuLOOP.S intends to foster structured and reproducible methods for precision neurorehabilitation of gait in stroke. The investigator will carry out a proof-of-concept study to investigate the integration of two personalized methods for each patient. Two innovative technologies are applied in concert to enhance the recovery of lower limb function.
- Hyper-personalized feedback (HPF): For lower limb motor rehabilitation, the investigator will employ real-time continuous feedback for movement aspects that are specific to each participant's motor deficit. The feedback will be adapted and tailored to each participant. This results in a two-step personalization; in the first step, the investigator will choose what movement aspect is therapeutically targeted, and in the second step, the investigator will define the feedback presented to the participant.
- Targeted auditory stimulation during sleep (TASS):The investigator aim to reactivate rehabilitation- related memories through the presentation of auditory stimuli during sleep with the goal of promoting motor memory consolidation into stable motor commands.
The HPF intervention is expected to induce rapid adaptations, which however do not persist over multiple days. To counter this, the investigator will leverage memory reactivation during sleep to enhance the consolidation of the movement patterns that are learned during HPF.
The investigator expect that these interventions will lead to greater gains in functional walking ability. Beyond demonstrating a proof-of-concept for novel methods of precision neurorehabilitation, positive results of this project may have implications for neurorehabilitation treatment in general by providing first insights into the benefits and interplay of HPF and TASS.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Ischemic stroke or intracerebral hemorrhage with a gait deficit older than 30 days but not more than 6 months.
- •Functional Ambulation Category ≥3
- •≥18 years of age
- •Informed consent as documented by signature
排除标准
- •Cognitive impairment, Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCa) < 20
- •Comprehensive aphasia precluding the understanding of study-related information
- •Previous stroke that caused sustained clinically relevant cognitive, visual and/or gait deficits
- •Expected acute hospitalization during the training period
- •History of a physical or neurological condition that interferes with study procedures
- •Social and/or personal circumstances that interfere with the ability to return for therapy sessions and follow-up assessments
- •Not capable of voluntary gait adaptation
- •Allergy to nickel
- •Patients taking benzodiazepines or Z-drugs with a significant effect on sleep EEG
结局指标
主要结局
6 min walking test (6MWT)
时间窗: Pre, immediately post motor rehabilitation training and one-month post-training
Change in functional walking ability assessed with the 6 min walking test (6MWT)
次要结局
- Gait kinematics(Pre, immediately post motor rehabilitation training and during 15 days of motor rehabilitation training and one-month post-training)