Home telerehabilitation for chronic stroke patients, with or without vascular dementia
Tests home telerehabilitation in chronic stroke patients, with or without vascular dementia.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- The Methodist Hospital Research Institute
- Where
- Houston, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Home Tele Rehabilitation Therapy for Vascular Dementia
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 120 people, planned
- Started
- 14 Dec 2024
- Expected to end
- 1 Apr 2028
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Home telerehabilitation therapy
- Record updated
- 2 March 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults who had a stroke at least 6 months ago and can still move the affected arm a little. A caregiver must also take part.
- Age
- 18 to 110 years
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Disease stage
- Stroke (ischemic or hemorrhagic) shown on a CT or MRI scan, at least 6 months ago, with some active movement in the affected arm, with or without vascular dementia.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Severe alcohol or drug abuse, severe psychiatric illness, or serious language or thinking problems that prevent following study instructions
- Weakness on both sides, or weakness or sensory damage from nerve, muscle or bone injury
- Severe uncontrolled medical problems that make intensive rehabilitation unsafe
- Taking part in another experimental arm rehabilitation trial
- Pregnancy, or being a prisoner
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Symptomatic ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke verified by computerized axial tomography or magnetic resonance imaging
- at least 6 months post stroke
- At least some active movement in the affected upper extremity (MRS 1 or more in shoulder elbow or wrist)
- Ability to provide informed consent, or LAR able to provide consent
- Expressed willingness to comply with all study procedures and attend all study-related visits for both the patient and at least one caregiver
- Age ≥ 18
- Ability to follow one-step commands
- Community-dwelling with transportation to evaluation sessions
- Ability to operate the therapy system with minimal assistance, including sufficient corrected vision to perceive objects from a distance of 5 feet
- Modified Ashworth Scale Score 3 or less in the involved upper extremity
- Passive range of motion within functional ranges at the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand
Who cannot take part
- Concurrent participation in other experimental upper extremity rehabilitation trials that would interfere with results
- Patients with history of severe alcohol or drug abuse, psychiatric illnesses like severe depression, poor motivational capacity, or severe language disturbances, particularly of receptive nature or with serious cognitive deficits (defined as unable to follow study instructions even with help from caregiver)
- Patients with severe uncontrolled medical problems that would render intensive rehabilitation unfeasible or unsafe (e.g. cardiovascular disease, unstable cardiac arrhythmia, severe rheumatoid arthritis, active joint deformity of arthritic origin, active cancer or renal disease, any kind of end-stage pulmonary or cardiovascular disease, or a deteriorated condition due to age, epilepsy or others)
- Patients with bilateral paresis, or weakness or sensory damage due to peripheral causes (e.g. peripheral nerve injury, muscle or orthopedic injury etc.)
- Non-English-speaking individuals will only be eligible if they can provide the appropriate translator for all the sessions of the study as no funding is available to pay for such services. However, we plan to include them once funding has been secured in the subsequent larger trial
- Pregnancy
- Prisoners
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 110 years old?
Where in United States
- Houston Methodist HospitalHouston, United StatesContact: Timea Hodics, MDTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
To determine whether the home telerehabilitation therapy is feasible and lessens caregiver burden in chronic stroke patients with and without vascular dementia (VaD)
The group in the trial
- Tele RehabilitationTreatment being tested
Telerehabilitation therapy Occupational therapist prescribed hand/arm exercises will continue for 90 minutes per day with adequate rest periods for 4 weeks, followed by telerehabilitation with the application for 4 weeks, when subjects will perform the tasks at home with the guidance of the treatment app. Detailed records of each subject's motor tasks, number of repetition and level of performance will be kept. Treatment will be performed Monday-Friday for approximately 4 weeks. Treatment times can be broken up into multiple treatment periods to accommodate patient and caregiver preferences.
Treatment: Home telerehabilitation therapy
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
- Home Tele Rehabilitation Therapy for Vascular Dementia
- Plain-language title
- Home telerehabilitation for chronic stroke patients, with or without vascular dementiaGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT06289569, who can take part
- Record updated
- 2 March 2026