Efficacy and Acceptability of the Luna EMG Rehabilitation Robot on Motor Recovery of the Upper Limb in the Chronic Phase of Stroke

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Conditions studied: Stroke

In brief

Recent work on large cohorts of chronic stroke (\>6 months post-stroke) have shown that intensive training of the upper limb in the chronic stroke patients can lead to substantial motor and functional gains that are maintained at 6 months post intervention. A very prolonged (12 weeks) and very intensive (5 hours daily) training applied to chronic patients after stroke brings a substantial gain both motor and functional which is maintained at 3 months post intervention. Robotic rehabilitation have been shown to be as effective as any other treatment used in rehabilitation. But the methods of implementation remain widely debated. At that time, most robotic therapies have tried to reproduce functional movement mainly pointing objects. We want to demonstrate that analytic movements of the elbow and the shoulder performed with the Luna-EMG robot can replace part of usual physiotherapy treatment with at least the same effectiveness on the recovery of fluid movements of the upper limb after a stroke.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05902910

Run by

University Hospital, Brest

People needed

5

Starts

2023-06-12

Expected to finish

2026-06-12

Last updated by the study team

2026-06-10

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Age >= 18 years
• Hemiparesis after a first stroke with more than 1 year time interval
• Functional upper limb: ability to do a pointing task at 90% of the hand-acromion distance (free trunk).
• Spastic hypertonia of the elbow flexors 0-2/4 on the Modified Ashworth scale
• Patient affiliated with social security
• Patient having signed a consent to participate in the research

You may not qualify if…

• Inability to sign written consent
• Flexed elbow > 30° during passive mobilization of the upper limb
• EVA>3 in the upper limb at rest or during mobilization
• Complete loss of upper limb proprioception
• Neuro-orthopedic surgery of the upper limb for spasticity: neurotomy, tenotomy, transfer
• Pregnant or breastfeeding woman

Where it is running

• CHU Brest — Brest, France (enrolling)

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