NCT04154514Completed
A Potential Wearable for Post-stroke Rehabilitation
A Wearable for Post-stroke Rehabilitative Multi-muscle Stimulation Inspired by the Natural Organization of Neuromuscular Control
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 26 Dec 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Participants are seeking to unleash the full therapeutic potential of a newly developed, customizable and potentially commericializable 10-channel Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) to rehabilitate the gait of chronic stroke survivors. Each subject will undergo 18-sessions (\~1 month) FES training. Participants will utilize the theory of muscle synergies from motor neurosciences, which are defined as neural modules of motor control that coordinate the spatiotemporal activation patterns of multiple muscles, to guide our personal selections of muscles for FES. It is hypothesized that chronic stroke survivors will learn from FES stimulations, over several daily sessions, both by suppressing the original abnormal muscle synergies and by employing the normal muscle synergies as specified in the FES. It is also expected that the walk synergies of the paretic side of chronic stroke survivors should be more similar to healthy muscle synergies at the two post-training time points than before training.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 53 (actual)
- First submitted
- 10 Oct 2019
- Start date
- 1 Feb 2019
- Primary completion date
- 1 Dec 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT04154514
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 53
- From 1 Feb 2019 to the primary completion date, 1 Dec 2025
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Other illness
- Have cardiac pacemaker;
- Patients with type i and ii diabetes
Other
- Cannot comprehend and follow instructions, or with a score \<21 on the mini-mental state exam;
- Have skin lesions at the locations where FES or EMG electrodes may be attached;
- Have major depression;
- Present with severe neglect
Who the study is looking for
- Right-handed elderly chronic stroke survivors; age ≥40; ≥6 months post-stroke
- Unilateral ischemic brain lesions
- Participants should be able to walk continuously for ≥15 min. with or without assistive aid
Age in the registry: 40 years to 85 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Unknown status |
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