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Evaluation of Robot Assisted Neuro-Rehabilitation
NCT01253018 · VA Office of Research and Development · Updated 30 Oct 2019
- What is being tested
- Robot Therapy; Transition to Task Training
- For
- Stroke
- Kind of study
- Tests a treatment or device on volunteers. Phase 1 and Phase 2.
- Who can join
- Ages 21 years and older. About 59 people. The full rules are on the registry page.
- Where
- United States
- When
- Starts or started 27 April 2011, ends 30 Jan 2015. Registered 3 Dec 2010.
- Results
- Posted on the registry on 7 Jan 2016.
In the researchers' words
Robotic devices are capable of providing therapy to the arm of patients with weakness due to stroke. Robotic therapy improves some aspects of stroke related arm weakness, but the use of the weak arm for real life situations often remains limited. The goal of this study is to determine the best way to use robotic devices and functional task training to improve the use of the stroke affected arm for real life situations. A secondary goal of this study is to determine how or if specific areas of the brain are excited before and after training. The use of a safe and painless magnetic field directed at the brain called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) will be used at set intervals to gain a better understanding of brain activity during recovery.
Sites
- Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MDBaltimore, Maryland, United States