Pilot Study - Comparison of Upper Body Ergometer Vs. Robot in Upper Extremity Motor Recovery Post-Stroke

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Conditions studied: Stroke

In brief

We will test whether robot driven, goal directed, trajectory corrected exercise enhances motor outcome in the upper limb of stroke patients better than matched motor activity on an upper body ergometer (monark).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00343304

Run by

Burke Rehabilitation Hospital

People needed

30

Starts

2005-04-01

Expected to finish

2006-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2006-06-22

Who can join

Age: 19 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients with a recent acute stroke in the last 4 weeks
• Patients with an upper extremity plegia (Medical Research Council [MRC] grade 2 or less at the shoulder joint),
• Patients or their next of kin (in the absence of their being able to) provide with a written informed consent.
• Aphasic alert patients provided they could follow simple directions given by verbal or gestural cues.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients with anterior or severe inferior shoulder subluxation (3 cms) of the plegic arm
• Patients without shoulder pain on passive range of 75 degrees forward flexion and 75 degrees abduction of the plegic arm
• Patients with trophic skin changes and significant edema (shoulder-hand syndrome)
• Patients with prior rotator cuff surgery, patients with bursitis and/or biceps tendonitis
• Patients who have suffered recent cardiac events (myocardial infarction, congestive cardiac failure, recent coronary artery bypass surgery)
• Patients who refuse to sign a written informed consent.

Where it is running

• Burke Rehabilitation Hospital — White Plains, New York, United States

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