Compare Effects of the Mirror Therapy and Robotic Mirror Therapy in Electroencephalography of Healthy Adults and Stroke Patients.

NCT04236089 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 201900537A3
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 65
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Mirror therapy has recently attracted increasing attention; however, most patients have the difficulties to perform mirror therapy due to limited imaginary ability. A mirror robotic hand system was developed, which consisted with a wearable exoskeletal hand, sensor glove, and a control box. The patient's unaffected hand wears the sensor glove, the affected hand wears the wearable exoskeleton hand, and the unaffected hand does the certain transitive and intransitive tasks as the mirror group, and then makes the affected hand do the same movements driven by the exoskeleton robotic hand. The investigators hypothesize that combining both approaches might facilitate the sensorimotor cortex that controls movement and might augment somatosensory input and further treatment efficacy. This study is aimed at investigating the effects of Mirror therapy and robotic mirror therapy on motor cortical activations in healthy adults and stroke patients using electroencephalography. All participants will perform the conditions of resting, moving right hand with or without robotic hand as the baseline data, then they will do mirror therapy using the right hand as active hand, or wearing robotic hand doing mirror therapy in random sequence. Electroencephalography (EEG) assessment will be done to assess the neurophysiologic effects of the different interventions. The investigators will use a questionnaire to assess the subjective opinion about the different interventions. combined with execution (video AOE). The investigators will use the pair-t test to assess the within subjects differences in EEG and the questionnaire results. This study will be done during 2020/02/01 - 2021/03/31.

Conditions

Healthy Adults; Stroke Patients

Keywords

mirror therapy; robotic mirror therapy; Electroencephalography; stroke

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Electroencephalography assessment

  Compare the brainwave of the different interventions through Fourier Transform

  1.5hours

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Questionnaire

  30 minutes

Study Arms (4)

mirror therapy of healthy adults

NO INTERVENTION

Traditional mirror therapy in electroencephalography of healthy adults.

robotic mirror therapy of healthy adults

EXPERIMENTAL

Robotic mirror therapy in electroencephalography of healthy adults.

Device: robotic hand

mirror therapy of stroke patients

NO INTERVENTION

Traditional mirror therapy in electroencephalography of stroke patients.

robotic mirror therapy of stroke patients

EXPERIMENTAL

Robotic mirror therapy in electroencephalography of stroke patients.

Device: robotic hand

Interventions

robotic hand DEVICE

mirror therapy with robotic hand

robotic mirror therapy of healthy adults; robotic mirror therapy of stroke patients

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 70 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• healthy adults: right handed, with normal upper extremity and cognition functions
• stroke patients:one side upper limb spasticity

You may not qualify if:

• \. wrist weakness or deformity 2. skin problem 3. musculoskeletal injury of upper extremities

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Chang Gung Memorial Hospital: lead

Study Sites (1)

Department of Rehabilitation, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Kaohsiung City, 833, Taiwan

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Stroke

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Cerebrovascular Disorders; Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Vascular Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 17, 2020
• First Posted: January 22, 2020
• Study Start: February 1, 2020
• Primary Completion: November 30, 2020
• Study Completion: December 31, 2020
• Last Updated: March 4, 2021

Record last verified: 2020-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TW (1)