Evaluation of Robotic Arm Rehabilitation in Stroke Patients

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Conditions studied: Stroke

In brief

The purpose of this study is to compare 2 training programs using robotic exercise devices to supervised arm exercises in stroke patients with chronic stable deficits.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00333983

Run by

US Department of Veterans Affairs

People needed

62

Starts

2006-06-01

Expected to finish

2011-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-03-20

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Subjects must have a clinically, defined, unilateral, hemiparetic stroke with radiologic exclusion of other diagnoses
• Stroke onset greater than six months before randomization for ischemic stroke patients and one year before randomization for hemorrhagic stroke patients
• A grade 3 or lower in Manual Muscle Test in the hemiparetic elbow flexion and shoulder abduction

You may not qualify if…

• Subjects unable to give informed consent
• Serious complicating medical illness
• Contracture or orthopedic problems limiting the range of joint movement in the study arm
• Visual loss
• Stroke occurred within 6 months for ischemic stroke patients, one year for hemorrhagic patients
• Botox treatment within 3 months of enrollment

Where it is running

• VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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