Video-supervised Motor and Awareness Training in Writer's Cramp
Key facts
- Who runs it
- University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein
- Where
- Kiel, GermanySee the site
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- Phase
- Phase 2
- People taking part
- 54 people, planned
- Started
- 26 Jun 2020
- Expected to end
- 1 Jan 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- motor training
- mindfulness exercises
- Record updated
- 10 December 2024
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years to 80 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Right handed idiopathic WC according to standardized criteria (simple and complex WC, any dystonic posture (including flexion, extension, pronation, supination))
- able to participate in video-calls
Who cannot take part
- concomitant use of anticholinergics or sedating medication
- Additional neurological or psychiatric diseases
- Cardiac pacemaker, electronic or metal implants
- left-handed patients
- last botulinum toxin treatment <3 months, remaining weakness from the last injection
- pregnancy or suspected pregnancy
- severe ametropia, anxiety in small rooms
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 18 and 80 years old?
Where in Germany
- Kiel UniversityKiel, GermanyContact: Kirsten E Zeuner, Prof. MDTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Writer's cramp is the most common task-specific dystonia. It is characterized by involuntary co-contraction of antagonistic muscles during writing. This disabling condition may force patients to give up their occupation. In this study the efficacy of a twelve months long-term training in patients with writer's cramp will be investigated. Two different programs will be offered: The first one will consist of a sensorimotor, the second one of an awareness training. All patients will benefit from video-based supervision with the aim to establish a practice-oriented therapeutic approach that will be available to all patients independently of their home location. The treatment effect will be measured primary with the patient-centered Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) and secondary with clinical scales to assess the clinical efficacy and everyday constraints. Writing will be assessed with a computer-based kinematic writing analysis. To evaluate the influence on the brain network, several functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) evaluations will be performed. This project is of minimal risk without negative side effects from the training. The risks for the MRI experiment are equal to a non-contrast standard MRI investigation.
The 2 groups in the trial
- motor trainingTreatment being tested
intervention: motor training
- awareness trainingExisting treatment, for comparison
intervention: mindfulness exercises
Treatment: mindfulness exercises
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?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Treatment Effect and Relevance on Daily Life of a Video-supervised Sensorimotor Training Program and Its Influence on the Pathophysiology in Writer's Cramp
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT04611009, who can take part
- Record updated
- 10 December 2024