Selective nerve transfers provide an opportunity for restoring the motor function after nerve injuries. Upper-limb robot-assisted therapy has been established as a safe and feasible treatment to complement rehabilitation after neurological injury. The aim of this study is to explore the combined effects of Hand Training with Robotic Glove on fine and gross motor function and activities of daily living in patients after median nerve transfer. The study will be randomized controlled trial. Participants will be recruited through non probability convenience sampling technique. After screening for eligibility, participants will be randomly assigned by balanced pre-randomization into two groups either to a robot-assisted group (RG), participants of this group receiving robot-assisted Hand Rehabilitation with the Syrebo Robotic Gloves or to a control group (CG), receiving dose-matched conventional Hand Rehabilitation without the robot. Participants will be engaged in exercises 4 times a week for 6 weeks, each participants will receive 3 Hand Rehabilitation therapy sessions of 45 Mins per day focusing on hand function. Data will be assessed at the start of the 1st session and at the end of the last session after 6 weeks with the help of Sollerman Hand Function test, Jebsen Taylor Hand Function test, The Original Barthel Index for Activities of Daily living. Data will be analyzed using SPSS version 25
Selective nerve transfers provide an opportunity for restoring the motor function after nerve injuries. Over the past decade different hand rehabilitation protocols and exercises are developed, robotic assisted rehabilitation is one of them. Upper-limb robot-assisted therapy has been established as a safe and feasible treatment to complement rehabilitation after neurological injury. Robots can precisely control the interaction with the user (e.g., supporting or resisting in an assist-as-needed manner) and render virtual environments both visually and mechanically, making them ideal tools for sensorimotor training, providing engaging and challenging therapy. The aim of this study is to explore the combined effects of Hand Training with Robotic Glove on fine and gross motor function and activities of daily living in patients after median nerve transfer. The study will be randomized controlled trial. Participants will be recruited through non probability convenience sampling technique. After screening for eligibility, participants will be randomly assigned by balanced pre-randomization into two groups either to a robot-assisted group (RG), participants of this group receiving robot-assisted Hand Rehabilitation with Syrebo Robotic Gloves or to a control group (CG), receiving dose-matched conventional Hand Rehabilitation without the robot. The participants will be engaged in exercises 4 times a week for 6 weeks, each participants will receive three Hand Rehabilitation therapy sessions per day focusing on hand function. Each therapy session will be of 45 minutes. These sessions will be embedded in the weekly therapy plan for each individual participant. Data will be assessed at the start of the 1st session and at the end of the last session after 6 weeks with the help of Sollerman Hand Function test, Jebsen Taylor Hand Function test, The Original Barthel Index for Activities of Daily living. Data will be analyzed using SPSS version 25. Key words: Hand Rehabilitation, Nerve transfer Rehabilitation, Robotic Glove
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
46
Robot Assisted group will perform hand exercises with the help of robotic glove assistance for 3 times per day/ 4 times per week, 45 minutes per session for 6 consecutive weeks. Total Number of Sessions will be 72 Hours.
Conventional therapy group will perform hand exercises without the help of robotic gloves 3 times per day/ 4 times per week, 45 minute session for 6 consecutive weeks.Total number of sessions will be 72.
Ghurki Trust Teaching Hospital , Lahore
Lahore, Punjab Province, Pakistan
RECRUITINGTHE SOLLERMAN HAND FUNCTION TEST (SHT)
Sollerman Hand Function Test (SHT) is an assessment tool for analyzing hand function and grip strength after hand surgery for recording the recovery rate in rehabilitation phase. The scale include 8 hand grips that further divided into 20 subsets that helps in analyzing hand grip pattern that used for daily activities. Further; each activity was scored form 0 to 4 points with collective score of 80. The lower the score the poor hand function and grip strength was observed. SHT considered as most reliable and valid tool in analyzing hand function with excellent inter-rater reliability (ICC:0.987) and moderate test-retest reliability.
Time frame: 6 Weeks
JABSEN-TAYLER HAND FUNCTION TEST
Jabsen-Tayler Hand Function Test is an effective assessment tool in analyzing fine and gross motor activity of hand that are required for performing daily activities of life. The scale included 7 subsets of activities including writing; turning page, lifting objects; feeding and sacking. It is considered as good to excellent reliable and valid tool with the ICC of 0.77 in dominant hand and 0.84 to 0.97 in non-dominant hand in injured hand.Higher score means worse outcome and Lower score means good outcome.
Time frame: 6 Weeks
PEGBOARD TEST
Pegboard Test is a valid instrument that used for assessing hand dexterity movement.Higher score means worse outcome and Lower score means good outcome. among the individual. It is a test board having five subsets focusing placing pins, bimanual task performance and mathematical problems. The whole test is scored based on the completion of each subset. It has an excellent validity with ICVI= 0.9-1.0, SCVI = 0.93-0.95 and ICCs =0.76-0.85.
Time frame: 6 Weeks
The Original Barthel Index for Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
The Barthel Index (BI) measures the extent to which somebody can function Independentlybladder control, toileting, chair transfer, ambulation and stair climbing. Items are weighted according to the level of nursing care required and are rated in terms of whether individuals can perform activities independently, with some assistance, or are dependent (scored as 10, 5 or 0). It has 0.89 test-retest reliability and 0.95 internal reliability. Reliability study found an alpha Cronbach value of 0.90 for the complete scale.(30)Higher the score for barthal index it means good outcome and lower the score means poor outcome.
Time frame: 6 Weeks
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