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Robotic Therapy and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Patients With Stroke
NCT02416791 · University of Sao Paulo General Hospital · Updated 20 Oct 2020
- What is being tested
- Robotic Therapy; Active tDCS; Sham tDCS; Physical Therapy; Occupational Therapy
- For
- Stroke
- Kind of study
- Tests a treatment or device on volunteers. No drug phase (a device or procedure study).
- Who can join
- Ages 18 years and older. About 9 people. The full rules are on the registry page.
- Where
- Brazil
- When
- Starts or started June 2015, ends Dec 2016. Registered 15 April 2015.
- Results
- Posted on the registry on 20 Oct 2020.
In the researchers' words
Stroke is the second cause of death worldwide and represented the first cause of death in Brazil between 2006 and 2010. Most patients survive, and there is a need to develop cost-effective rehabilitation strategies to decrease the burden of disability from stroke. This study addresses this important issue, by combining two different interventions in the early phase post-stroke: robotic therapy associated or not with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), as adjuvant interventions to conventional physical therapy, for motor upper limb rehabilitation.
Sites
- Hospital das ClínicasSão Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil