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Exoskeleton and Brain Activity With fNIRS
NCT05298943 · Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans · Updated 1 April 2022
- What is being tested
- walking in 4 situations
- For
- Healthy; Gait Disorders, Neurologic
- Kind of study
- Tests a treatment or device on volunteers. No drug phase (a device or procedure study).
- Who can join
- Ages 18 years to 40 years. About 26 people. The full rules are on the registry page.
- Where
- France
- When
- Starts or started 2 March 2022, ends 22 March 2022. Registered 28 March 2022.
- Results
- None posted yet.
In the researchers' words
Background. Force control is one of the major parameter of motor activity. There is few study concerning the cortical activity imply for different levels of force during gait. Objective. To investigate cortex activation while walking an exoskeleton with 4 levels of guidance force in healthy controls. Methods. The investigators acquired near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) with a 20 channels device (Brite 24® ; Artinis) covering bilaterally most motor control brain regions during exoskeleton walking at different level of force (100 %, 50% aid, 0 % aid and 25 % of resistance) in 24 healthy controls. The investigators measured variations of oxyhemoglobin (HbO2) and deoxyhemoglobin (HbR). The technique was optimized by the use of reference channels (to correct for superficial hemodynamic interference).
Sites
- CHR OrléansBoissise-le-Roi, France