NCT04446273Recruiting
Proximal Priority Versus Distal Priority Robotic Priming Effects in Patients With Chronic Stroke
Effects of Proximal Priority Versus Distal Priority Robotic Priming Technique With Rehabilitation Therapy of Upper-Limb Functions in Patients With Chronic Stroke
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 25 Feb 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This is a single-blind randomized comparative efficacy study involving 54-72 participants with chronic stroke. Participants will be randomized into proximal priority robotic group or distal priority robotic group and receive 18 intervention sessions (90 min/d, 3 d/wk for 6 weeks). The Fugl-Meyer Assessment Upper Extremity subscale, Medical Research Council Scale, Revised Nottingham Sensory Assessment, and Wolf Motor Function Test will be administered at baseline, after treatment, and at the 3-month follow-up. Two-way repeated-measures analysis of variance and the Chi-Square Automatic Interaction Detector Method will be used to examine the comparative efficacy and predictors of outcome, respectively, after intervention.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 72 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 18 Jun 2020
- Start date
- 3 Jul 2020
- Primary completion date
- 30 Jun 2026
- Lead sponsor
- National Taiwan University Hospital
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT04446273
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 72
- From 3 Jul 2020 to the primary completion date, 30 Jun 2026
- 4 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Other illness
- The exclusion criteria are other neurologic, neuromuscular, or orthopedic disease, such as epilepsy, or severe health or physical conditions that might impede participation in this study.
Who the study is looking for
- The inclusion criteria are age between 20 and 75 years old, more than 3 months after the onset of a first unilateral ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, moderate to severe UE motor impairment (i.e., total UE score of the Fugl-Meyer Assessment \[FMA\] score between 18 and 56), no severe spasticity in any joints of the affected arm (modified Ashworth Scale score \<3 in any of the affected shoulder, elbow, wrist, and fingers), able to follow instructions (Mini-Mental State Examination total score \>24), no UE fractures in the past 3 months, and not simultaneously participating in other medication or rehabilitation studies.
Age in the registry: 20 years to 75 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (4)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Taipei City | Taiwan | Recruiting |
| Fongyuan Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taichung | Taiwan | Recruiting |
| National Taiwan University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taipei | Taiwan | Recruiting |
| Taipei Municipal Wan Fang Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taipei | Taiwan | Recruiting |
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