CVA stroke
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: In order to be eligible to participate in this study, a stroke survivor must meet all of the following criteria: * Patients should be clinically diagnosed with unilateral, either right or left sided, middle cerebral artery stroke (ischemic or hemorrhagic) * Between 18-80 years of age * Time since onset of disease is at least one week * Sufficient cognitive status to understand two-step instructions * Patients should be able to lift their affected arm on the table and to grasp a cylindrical object while seated in a chair * Provide written informed consent ;In order to be eligible to participate in this study, a healthy control subject must meet all of the following criteria: * Between 18-80 years of age * Sufficient cognitive status to understand two-step instructions * Provide written informed consent
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: A potential subject who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study: * People with severe acute pain of the (affected) arm and hand * People having insufficient knowledge of the Dutch language to understand the purpose or methods of the study - People withth visual deficits, either opthalmic (e.g. wearing glasses or lenses stronger than -5 or + 3) or cerebral * Severe contractures limiting passive range of motion in the UE * Co-morbidities limiting functional use of the arm and hand
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Main study parameters are related to (timing of) gaze behaviour during several reaching and object manipulation tasks such as proportions of task duration with gaze focused on task-relevant objects (TRO gaze), on task-relevant body parts (TRB gaze), and on task-irrelevant objects (TIO gaze) (expressed in percentages of total task duration). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To explore whether, and how, visuomotor behaviour of stroke survivors differs from healthy controls To explore whether, and how, visuomotor behaviour of stroke survivors differs between participants with left- and right hemisphere strokes | — |
Countries
Netherlands