Paralysis affecting one side of the body in stroke patients. Nervous System Diseases Hemiplegia
Conditions
Interventions
Participants who are able to complete the whole study will require four separate sessions that will take around 2 hours 45 minutes over the first few weeks of participants three-week stay on the Upper
Sponsors
Goldsmiths University of London
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Acceptance on the Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation Service at the National Hospital For Neurology and Neurosurgery. 2. Diagnosis of stroke resulting in hemiparesis at least 6 months prior to study. 3. Cognitive ability to follow the tasks. 4. Ability to lift the affected hand onto a table whilst seated, unaided by their unaffected limb. 5. Ability to sit unsupported for at least 10 minutes. 6. Aged between18-75. 7. Inefficiency in their movement pattern that can be tracked by the machine learning system in the study.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: High level of functioning in the upper limb (i.e. with little or no further improvement possible)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The primary dependent variable is a compensation percentage change score. The relative score for each movement will be calculated as (time in optimum movement - time in error movement) / time in optimum movement * 100. This means a lower percentage score signals less time spent in undesirable compensatory movement. The scores will be collected in milliseconds at all time points in the study over four separate sessions with data taken from the custom made system called Sonic Sleeve. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. The total number of repetitions are measured to track how many times the patient reaches the target X and back. The measure will be taken at all time points over four separate sessions with data taken from the custom made system called Sonic Sleeve that gives the start pose and end position of each target movement. 2. The number of quality repetitions is determined by counting the number of repetitions with no compensatory movements and is worked out by referring to the primary outcome data. If no compensatory movement is detected above a noise threshold then repetitions will be added as a quality repetition. 3. Fatigue is measured using the Likert scale post-session in all four sessions. After each session patients will answer the Likert scale question: How tiring did you find taking part in this session? [Not at all, a little, rather, very, extremely]. This will help to keep track of how tired they feel and may help understand differences in the data. | — |
Countries
England, United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed