NCT06057129Completed
Unsupervised Therapy After Stroke in the Home Setting With a Hand Rehabilitation Device (ReHandyBot)
Feasibility of Unsupervised Therapy After Stroke in the Home Setting With a Hand Rehabilitation Device (ReHandyBot): an Exploratory Study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 21 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The ReHandyBot is a robot for hand rehabilitation after stroke. The aims of this study are (1) to investigate the feasibility of unsupervised therapy with the ReHandyBot with stroke inpatients, first in a rehabilitation clinic and then at participants' home, (2) to evaluate the usability of the ReHandyBot (user interface, implemented exercises, and gaming environment, which were adapted for independent usage), and (3) to quantify the dose of additional robotic therapy that patients perform without supervision. The study consists of two primary phases. The first is a familiarization phase performed at the clinic, where therapists teach to the participants how to perform the exercises with the robot. Then, if capable of training with the robot safely, after discharge from the clinic participants can bring the robot home and autonomously train with it. The hypothesis is that unsupervised therapy might be a possible way to increase therapy dose for stroke patients, with the potential to further improve recovery of hand function, with minimal additional burden for therapists and for the healthcare system.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 15 (actual)
- First submitted
- 13 Sept 2023
- Start date
- 13 Nov 2023
- Primary completion date
- 29 May 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT06057129
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 15
- From 13 Nov 2023 to the primary completion date, 29 May 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Prior treatment
- pacemakers and other active implants;
Other illness
- functional impairment of the upper limb due to other pathologies;
Other
- modified Ashworth Scale \> 2 for one or more of the following muscles: shoulder adductors, forearm pronator and supinator, flexors and extensors of elbow, wrist and fingers;
- moderate to severe aphasia: Goodglass-Kaplan's scale \< 3;
- moderate to severe cognitive deficits: levels of cognitive functioning-revised (LCF-R) \< 9;
- severe pain in the affected arm: visual analogue scale for pain (VASp) ≥ 5;
- other pathologies which may interfere with the study;
- after discharge the patient will go to an assisted living facility (e.g., care home).
Who the study is looking for
- Informed Consent signed by the subject;
- female and male patients between 18 and 90 years old;
- acute/subacute stroke (recruitment within 12 weeks from stroke onset);
- pre-stroke modified Rankin score ≤ 1;
- National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) ≥ 1 in at least one of the items regarding motor functions, sensory functions and ataxia;
- possibility (e.g., enough space) to set up the ReHandyBot at home.
Age in the registry: 18 years to 90 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinica Hildebrand Centro di riabiliazione Brissago Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Brissago | Switzerland | Unknown status |
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