Using HandTutor With Traumatic Hand Injuries: Characterizing the System

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Hand Injuries
• Interventions: Device: HandTutor System

• Registration Number: NCT01210833
• Lead Sponsor: Meir Medical Center

Brief Summary

HandTutor is a computerized system designed to evaluate and rehabilitate hand function. It is composed of a glove with optic sensors detecting the movements of the wrist and the fingers with a biofeedback software designed to evaluate and then to exercise the hand movements through supplying a variety of computer graphic patterns.

The HandTutor has been used and tested with a stroke population, and it seems potential to be used with hand injuried population. As a first step, it is important to investigate the characteristics of the system and how it is matching the hand injuried population.

The purpose if this study is to characterize the HandTuror system and the focused objectives are:

1. To examine the test-retest reliability of the system when measuring the range of motion (ROM) of the the fingers among healthy people (control group).

2. To examine the correlation between the ROM measured by the HandTutor and the ROM measured by conventional assessment tools (goniometer).

3. To examine the ability of the system to distinguish between healthy people and hand injured people.

4. To examine the correlation between the performance in the HandTutor (in the games part), and the performance in functional activities.

5. To examine the participants feedback for using the HandTutor (degree of enjoyment).

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2010-08-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-09-28
• Study First Posted: 2010-09-29
• Study Start: 2010-10
• Primary Completion: 2012-02
• Study Completion: 2014-12
• Status Verified: 2018-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-04-12
• Last Update Posted: 2018-04-17

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

• Hand Injuries causing a disfunction of one finger or more of the fingers 2nd-5th.
• Six weeks at least after the injury/surgery.
• Allowed to exercise their fingers with no contraindications according to the orthopedic surgeon instructions.
• With no open wounds.

Exclusion Criteria

• Peripheral nerves injuries.
• Digital nerves injuries.
• Sensation problems.
• CRPS-complex regional pain syndrome.
• Cognitive impairments.
• Head trauma.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Hand Injured participants	HandTutor System	Participants with hand injuries aged from 18 to 60 recruited from the outpatients attending the occupational therapy clinic.
Healthy participants	HandTutor System	Healthy participants aged from 18 to 60 with no history of hand injuries recruited by convenience sampling.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
range of movement (ROM)	up to 12 months after the injury	Passive and active ROM measured by goniometer, passive and active ROM measured by HandTutor

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
daily life functioning	up to 12 months after the injury	Measured by DASH-Disability of Arm,Shoulder and Hand Questionnaire, and by Jebsen-Taylor Hand Function Test.
motor performance skills	up to 12 months after the injury	Measured by Purdue Pegboard Test
performance in HandTutor	up to 12 months after the injury	The final score the participants get when exercising with the HandTutor.
enjoyment	up to 12 months after the injury	Measured by SFQ-Specific feedback questionnaire.
pain	up to 12 months after the injury	Measured by VAS-Visual analogue scale.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Clalit Health Service, Southern Clinic, Occupational Therapy Department; 🇮🇱 Naẕerat 'Illit, Israel