Feasibility of Using Prism Adaptation to Treat Spatial Neglect and Motor Function in Stroke

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Conditions studied: Stroke

In brief

This research project is a study designed to address both motor and cognitive changes after stroke. Treatment for SN is elusive however there is support for prism adaptation treatment (PAT). Therapists need to know more about the effects of this treatment and if it is feasible in a group of stroke survivors with multiple lesions because these are the patients they are treating in the clinical setting. Also, it has not been investigated that using PAT to remediate SN will then as a result increase spontaneous UE movement of the weak limb.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02419222

Run by

Kessler Foundation

People needed

30

Starts

2015-01-01

Expected to finish

2016-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-08-21

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Between the ages of 18 and 90.
• New stroke on the right side of the brain.
• Has an UE impairment of the arm affected by the stroke (WMFT score of less than 75).
• Has the presence of spatial neglect (greater than 1 on the KF-NAP).
• Is able to give informed consent.
• Past medical history includes having had a stroke or more than one. This can be ischemic or hemorrhagic, and on either side of the brain.

You may not qualify if…

• Is under the age of 18.
• Has severe communication deficit.
• Has a left brain stroke as the primary diagnosis and/or the primary diagnosis is anything other than stroke.
• Is blind in one or both eyes.
• Is not staying at the inpatient rehabilitation hospital
• Has a cognitive impairment that inhibits their ability to recall information.
• Has severely impaired upper extremity function in bilateral arms (cannot participate in the prism task).

Where it is running

• Kessler Insitute for Rehabilitaiton — Saddle Brook, New Jersey, United States
• Kessler Institute for Rehabiltiation — West Orange, New Jersey, United States

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