Tests a robot-assisted arm training device after chronic stroke
Tests a robotic device for arm movement training in adults with chronic stroke.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Efficacy and Acceptability of the Luna EMG Rehabilitation Robot on Motor Recovery of the Upper Limb in the Chronic Phase of Stroke
Key facts
- Where
- Brest, FranceSee the site
Where in France
- Chu BrestBrest, FranceTaking 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 Hospital, Brest
- Trial code
- NCT05902910
- Record updated
- 10 June 2026
- Original description
Recent work on large cohorts of chronic stroke (>6 months post-stroke) have shown that intensive training of the upper limb in the chronic stroke patients can lead to substantial motor and functional gains that are maintained at 6 months post intervention.Read full original descriptionShow less
Efficacy and Acceptability of the Luna EMG Rehabilitation Robot on Motor Recovery of the Upper Limb in the Chronic Phase of Stroke, Experimental Study in Single Cases.
Recent work on large cohorts of chronic stroke (>6 months post-stroke) have shown that intensive training of the upper limb in the chronic stroke patients can lead to substantial motor and functional gains that are maintained at 6 months post intervention.
A very prolonged (12 weeks) and very intensive (5 hours daily) training applied to chronic patients after stroke brings a substantial gain both motor and functional which is maintained at 3 months post intervention.
Robotic rehabilitation have been shown to be as effective as any other treatment used in rehabilitation. But the methods of implementation remain widely debated. At that time, most robotic therapies have tried to reproduce functional movement mainly pointing objects.
We want to demonstrate that analytic movements of the elbow and the shoulder performed with the Luna-EMG robot can replace part of usual physiotherapy treatment with at least the same effectiveness on the recovery of fluid movements of the upper limb after a stroke.
Inclusion: Age >= 18 years; Hemiparesis after a first stroke with more than 1 year time interval; Functional upper limb: ability to do a pointing task at 90% of the hand-acromion distance (free trunk); Spastic hypertonia of the elbow flexors 0-2/4 on the Modified Ashworth scale; Patient affiliated with social security; Patient having signed a consent to participate in the research.
Exclusion: Neuro-orthopedic surgery of the upper limb for spasticity: neurotomy, tenotomy, transfer; Inability to sign written consent; Flexed elbow > 30° during passive mobilization of the upper limb; EVA>3 in the upper limb at rest or during mobilization; Complete loss of upper limb proprioception; Pregnant or breastfeeding woman.