NCT03995069Completed
Novel Training Environment to Normalize Altered Finger Force Direction Post Stroke
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 11 Jul 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Despite the functional importance, fingertip forces are rarely explicitly addressed with feedback in therapy. This gap in treatment is due to a lack of tools to provide explicit feedback on patients' volitional finger force generation. To address this unmet need, the investigators developed a novel tool for practice of volitional three-dimensional (3D) force generation with explicit feedback. The objective of this project is to determine if 3D finger force training is an effective tool in restoring hand function post stroke.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 51 (actual)
- First submitted
- 19 Jun 2019
- Start date
- 28 Oct 2020
- Primary completion date
- 26 Jan 2024
- Lead sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT03995069
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 51
- From 28 Oct 2020 to the primary completion date, 26 Jan 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Prior treatment
- Concurrent upper limb rehabilitation
- Change in spasticity medication or botulinum toxin injection in the upper limb within 3 months prior to or during enrollment
Other illness
- Comorbidity (e.g., orthopaedic conditions that limit ranges of motion, premorbid neurologic conditions)
- Language barrier or cognitive impairment that precludes providing consent
Other
- Inability to follow 2-step commands
- Severe muscle tone prohibiting passive movement of the fingers or proper placement of the fingers on the force sensors as needed to participate in the training (Modified Ashworth Scale=4-5 out of 5)
- Total sensory loss on fingertips (NIHSS Sensory score=2)
Who the study is looking for
- Survived a stroke at least 3 months ago
- Moderate to severe hand impairment (Chedoke-McMaster Hand Stage 2-4)
- Ability to generate palpable volitional grip force upon cue
- Sufficient cognitive ability to participate (NIH Stroke Scale, NIHSS, Questions and Commands score = 0-1)
- Ability to recognize all quadrants of the visual field (NIHSS Visual Field Test score = 0)
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Charleston | United States | Unknown status |
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