Muscle Activity of the Upper Limb Between Task-Specific and Robot Assisted Training Among Individuals Post Stroke

Hadassah Medical Organization20 enrolled

Overview

The investigators compared the activity and fatigue of upper extremity muscles, pain levels, subject satisfaction levels, perceived exertion, and number of repetitions in Task-Specific Training (TST) compared with Robot-Assisted Training (RAT) in individuals post-stroke.

Twenty sub-acute post stroke subjects received one TST and one RAT. They marked the pain level in their paretic extremity before and after each session. Muscle activity levels and fatigue and number of repetitions were monitored during each session. The subjective assessment questionnaire of treatment and the Borg scale were administered post-session.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Stroke

Interventions

The RAT and The TSTDIAGNOSTIC_TEST

The RAT (ReoGo; Motorika Medical, Caesarea, Israel) The TST protocol included the conventional, repetitive, task-oriented training of the affected arm.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 85 Years

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Inclusion Criteria: * 18 to 85 year old individuals up to three months following stroke * National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score 3-15 * Intact cognitive function * mild to moderate weakness of the affected hand * normal or corrected eyesight Exclusion Criteria: * neurological, cardio-vascular or orthopedic impairment, unrelated to the stroke, which restricts upper limb function * a pace-maker

Locations (1)

Hadassah Medical Center

Jerusalem, Israel

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Muscle activity

The activity levels of electromyographic signal (in millivolts) will be averaged for the duration of the recording.

Time frame: 30 minutes

Muscle fatigue

Fatigue expressed by calculation of the the difference between the median frequency in the first 5 minutes and last five minutes of a 30 minute session

Time frame: 30 minutes

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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