Early Independent Adaptive Arm and Hand Rehab
Post-stroke Hemiparesis
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Post-stroke Hemiparesis focused on measuring Motor control
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Ability to follow study instructions
- Ability to likely complete all required visits
- Ability to comply with the therapy protocol as assessed by the investigator
- Must be English speaking
- Subjects must have had a unilateral stroke
Exclusion Criteria:
- Severe upper extremity spasticity suggested by an Ashworth score of ≥3 at any joint, or restriction of full passive range of motion.
- Evidence of alcohol, drug abuse or other relevant neuropsychiatric condition such as psychotic illness or severe depression.
- Any condition or situation that, in the investigator's opinion, may put the subject at significant risk, confound the study results, or interfere significantly with the subject's participation in the study.
- History of surgery or other significant injury to either upper extremity causing mechanical limitations that preclude task performance.
- Previous neurological illness such as head trauma, prior stroke, epilepsy, or demyelinating disease.
- Complicating medical problems such as uncontrolled hypertension, diabetes with signs of polyneuropathy, severe renal, cardiac or pulmonary disease, or evidence of other concurrent neurologic or orthopedic conditions precluding the subject from complying with the study protocol.
- Patients who are cognitively impaired.
- Patients who lack capacity to consent.
Sites / Locations
- New York University Langone Medical Center
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Experimental
Conventional Occupational Therapy (OT)
OT + Device-assisted therapy
Standard of care occupational therapy for stroke recovery
Conventional OT plus 1 hour additional bimanual-to-unimanual device-assisted therapy. The m2 BAT will enable repeated movement of the affected body part without the help of a therapist, providing the opportunity to maintain range-of motion in the affected limb to limit spasticity, contracture and the ensuing deformity, a major goal of rehabilitation therapy and produces movement in the affected limb from activating the patient's own brain, rather than from being acted on by an external powered source such as a robot.