Grip Movement Training for Adults With Fine Motor Limitation

NCT03750045 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: CAAE: 56355416.3.0000.5497
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 10
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study is to test the system composed by a 3D virtual environment, attached to the Leap Motion, evaluating its effects on the rehabilitation of hand movements in patients with motor alteration.

Conditions

Hand Injuries and Disorders

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Virtual environment

  The intervention was composed by 8 sessions of 15 minutes each, where the volunteers used a virtual environment attached it to a Leap Motion, which is a sensor that allows to capture the movements that are produced by the hands and reproduce them in a computer through a 3D virtual environment in order to stimulate the execution of their finer movements.

  120 minutes

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Wooden box

  Immediately after at the Session 1, 4 and 8.

• Dynamometer JAMAR

  Immediately after at the Session 1, 4 and 8.

Study Arms (1)

Experimental group

EXPERIMENTAL

For the tests, the volunteers used the access device (Leap Motion) and a computer that were previously installed. The intervention was composed by 8 sessions of 15 minutes each, where the volunteers used a virtual environment attached it to a Leap Motion, which is a sensor that allows to capture the movements that are produced by the hands and reproduce them in a computer through a 3D virtual environment in order to stimulate the execution of their finer movements. The strength (Jamar) and motor coordination (wooden box) evaluations were made in the first, fourth and eighth sessions with the objective of checking the gain progression or not of motion coordination and grip strength.

Diagnostic Test: Jamar; Diagnostic Test: Wooden box; Other: Virtual environment

Interventions

Jamar DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

The grip strength was evaluated through a dynamometer JAMAR 5030-J, formed by two parallel steel bars, one stationary and a mobile one, which can be adjusted in five different positions. The volunteer was sitting with a neutrally rotated abducted shoulder, elbow flexed at 90°, the forearm in neutral position, and the wrist between 0° and 30° of extension, 0° to 15° of ulnar variance and it was requested that he or she made the grip movement. This test was performed three times with a one-minute-break between each one.

Experimental group

Wooden box DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

The motor coordination evaluation was made through the measurement of the time spent to perform the task of fitting. To do so, a wooden box was built. In its upper part, there is a circular orifice with 6 cm of diameter.

Experimental group

Virtual environment OTHER

The system proposed is composed by a virtual environment and an access device. The Leap Motion was used as the access device, making it possible to capture the movements performed by the hands.

Experimental group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• men and women with age equal or higher than 18 years old;
• having clinical diagnosis of neurological pathology;
• presenting fine motor coordination deficit and in grip strength;
• being able to understand instructions in order to perform the tasks of the virtual environment;
• minimum score of 23/24 (from a total of 30) in the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)

You may not qualify if:

• Not accepting to participate in this research

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Mogi das Cruzes: lead

Study Sites (1)

Terigi Augusto Scardovelli

Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, 08780-911, Brazil

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Hand Injuries; Disease

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Wounds and Injuries; Pathologic Processes; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Study Officials

• Terigi A Scardovelli, Ph.D

  University of Mogi das Cruzes

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 19, 2018
• First Posted: November 21, 2018
• Study Start: August 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: August 15, 2016
• Study Completion: April 12, 2017
• Last Updated: November 21, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-11

Locations

BR (1)