Home Ankle Robot Training With or Without Electrical Stimulation After Stroke
Tests ankle robot training, alone or with electrical muscle stimulation, in adults after stroke.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Hybrid Robot+FES Stroke Rehabilitation
Key facts
- Where
- Baltimore, United StatesSee the site
- Phase
- Phase 1/2
Could this be for you?
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 18 and 85 years old?
Source: NCT04550728, who can take part
Where in United States
- University of Maryland School of MedicineBaltimore, United StatesTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- University of Maryland, Baltimore
- Trial code
- NCT04550728
- Record updated
- 18 December 2025
- Original description
The investigators have developed a novel robot-guided stretching under intelligent control and combine it with active movement training, which helped increase joint ROM, reduce spasticity and joint stiffness, increase muscle force output, and improve locomotion. However, for stroke survivors with sensorimotor impairment, their peripheral muscle may not sufficiently be recruited. Functional electrical stimulation (FES), has been shown its advantage to activate the peripheral muscles for people with neurological conditions. The investigators thus make a hybrid robot-FES rehabilitation system, combining the advantage of robot and FES technologies for stroke motor recovery. The investigators further would like to translate the technologies from lab to home-based training. Thus, the investigators will conduct a randomized, controlled, primarily home-based clinical trial using an ankle robot alone or combined with functional electrical stimulation (FES) to treat sensorimotor and locomotion impairments post-stroke.Read full original descriptionShow less
Assessment Followed by Home-based Hybrid Robot + FES Rehabilitation Post-stroke
The investigators have developed a novel robot-guided stretching under intelligent control and combine it with active movement training, which helped increase joint ROM, reduce spasticity and joint stiffness, increase muscle force output, and improve locomotion. However, for stroke survivors with sensorimotor impairment, their peripheral muscle may not sufficiently be recruited. Functional electrical stimulation (FES), has been shown its advantage to activate the peripheral muscles for people with neurological conditions. The investigators thus make a hybrid robot-FES rehabilitation system, combining the advantage of robot and FES technologies for stroke motor recovery. The investigators further would like to translate the technologies from lab to home-based training. Thus, the investigators will conduct a randomized, controlled, primarily home-based clinical trial using an ankle robot alone or combined with functional electrical stimulation (FES) to treat sensorimotor and locomotion impairments post-stroke.
Inclusion: Age 18-85; Able to ambulate at least 10 meters without human assistance, with or without an assistive device; ≥ 6 months post stroke; having a caregiver to assist in training at home.
Exclusion: having expressive and receptive aphasia; an inability to follow multi-step commands; enrolled in another lower limb rehabilitation program; having severe pain in the paralyzed lower-limb; >30º ankle plantar flexion contracture; Having implanted electronic device such as a pacemaker, spinal cord, or deep brain stimulator because FES may potentially interfere with their functions.