Music Therapy/Physical Therapy Intervention to Enhance Well-being and Functional Recovery Post-stroke

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Conditions studied: Stroke With Hemiparesis

In brief

The purpose of this study is to see if group Music Therapy and Physical Therapy will help in the recovery from stroke. It is hoped that music and physical therapy in a group setting will help physical, mental, and social well-being.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01586221

Run by

NYU Langone Health

People needed

30

Starts

2012-01-01

Expected to finish

2017-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-07-21

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Able to read and write in English
• Unilateral stroke at least 6 months prior
• Independent community ambulation with or without assistive devices
• Presence of at least 5 degrees of active motion in proximal and distal upper extremity joints, suggesting presence of a neural substrate for recovery

You may not qualify if…

• Neurological or psychiatric disease such as clinical depression
• Hearing deficits
• History of surgery or other significant injury that could preclude task performance
• Complicating medical problems such as uncontrolled hypertension, diabetes with signs of neuropathy, and previous neurological illness such as head trauma, prior stroke, epilepsy or demyelinating disease
• Any factors that may put the subject at significant risk or confound study results

Where it is running

• New York University School of Medicine — New York, New York, United States

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