Usability Testing of Affordable Haptic Robots for Stroke Therapy
Stopped early · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Stroke, Hemiplegia
In brief
Stroke survivors with hemiplegia will be evaluated by rehabilitation professionals and asked to perform a battery of assessments to test the viability and usability of a force-feedback robot that adapts to each individual subject's performance. Subsequently, they will be asked to complete post-assessment questionnaires that provide feedback to the researchers on their observations and thoughts about the therapy devices.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02772809
- Run by
- University of Pennsylvania
- People needed
- 23
- Starts
- 2014-03-01
- Expected to finish
- 2017-07-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-09-04
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Stroke survivors at least 18 years of age with hemiplegia.
- The subject's stroke must have occurred at least 3 months prior to enrollment in the study.
- Low and Moderate functioning stroke survivors as measured by Fugl- Meyer
- Not depressed
- No more than Mild Cognitive Deficit
- Participants must be able to sit upright for 4 hours at a time in Part A of the study; and 2 hours at a time, 3 days a week, for Part B of the study.
- The subject's stroke must have occurred at least 3 months prior to enrollment in the study.
You may not qualify if…
- Greater than mild cognitive deficits
- Greater than mild depression. A member of the research team will administer Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI) to each study participant over the phone. If the participant is found to have greater than mild depression, as measured by the BDI, they will not qualify for the study.
- Receiving rehabilitation on the upper limb.
- Received Botox injections within the past 3 months.
- Suffering from contractures (chronic loss of joint motion) or debilitating spasticity in the upper extremity.
- Experiencing greater than mild pain, and/or the PI determines that the participant should no longer continue working with the novel therapy devices, the study will be stopped.
Where it is running
- Penn Medicine Rittenhouse — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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