Telerehabilitation in Severe Acquired Brain Injury
Brain Injuries, Stroke
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Brain Injuries focused on measuring Telerehabilitation, Motor outcomes, Cognitive dysfunction
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:age range 18 to 65 years; diagnosis of SABI; availability at home internet connection.
Exclusion Criteria: severe cognitive and behavioral impairments, cardio-respiratory instability or other medical illness potentially interfering with the treatment, severe limb spasticity, high-risk of spontaneous fracture, substance abuse.
Sites / Locations
- IRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino-Pulejo"
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Other
TR Treatment
Conventional Treatment
TR will be delivered by means of an advanced video-conferencing system, and patients will be provided with low-cost monitoring devices, able to collect data about the health status and QoL. All treatments from remote are based on scheduled videoconferences between the patient's home and the Clinical Units, and therapists can control and modify the exercises. A virtual reality based system, consisting of two PC-based workstations, located at the patient's home and at the rehabilitation center, will be used. For the motor treatments the patient has to move the real end effector, following the trajectory of the corresponding virtual task displayed on his computer screen. The speech and cognitive exercises will be delivered from the two Research Institutes to the patient's home.
In this group patients will be treated with conventional physiotherapy and speech training, adjusted in reason of the clinical needs, as usually. Treatments for motor limbs activity will be focused on functional active-assistive and active exercises. Conventional "paper and pencil" training will be used to improve cognitive function.