Improving Arm Mobility and Use After Stroke

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Cerebrovascular Accident

In brief

An individual suffering a stroke or other brain injury may lose function on one side of the body (partial paralysis). As the individual shifts activities to favor the unaffected side, the problem worsens. Constraint induced (CI) therapy forces the individual to use the neglected arm by restraining the good arm in a sling. This study examines the effectiveness of CI therapy for improving arm motion after stroke.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00057018

Run by

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

People needed

229

Starts

2000-04-01

Expected to finish

2006-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-09-26

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 3 to 9 months post cerebral infarct or 1 year post injury
• 2.5 or lower on the Motor Activity Log scale
• >= 10 degrees of active wrist extension
• >= 10 degrees of extension of all joints of thumb and two other digits
• Ability to perform wrist/finger extension movements three times within one minute

Where it is running

• University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
• University of Southern California — Los Angeles, California, United States
• University of Florida — Gainesville, Florida, United States
• Emory University — Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
• Wake Forest University School of Medicine — Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
• Ohio State University — Columbus, Ohio, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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