Robot-assisted hand training for children with cerebral palsy
Tests robot-assisted hand training in children with cerebral palsy.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Cook Children's Health Care System
- Where
- Fort Worth, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Robot-assisted Training in Children With CP
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 80 people, planned
- Started
- 25 Sept 2021
- Expected to end
- 31 Dec 2029
- Type of study
- Interventional, 4 groupsOne group gets no study treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Robot (Amadeo)-assisted Training
- Record updated
- 10 July 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 children and teens with cerebral palsy who walk and move well, to test robot-assisted hand training. It also takes healthy children with no brain injury or neurological disorder as a comparison group.
- Age
- 6 Years to 18 Years
- Sex
- All
- Disease stage
- Cerebral palsy diagnosed by a specialist doctor, at a high level of function: level I or II on the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS). Children in the healthy group must have no neurological disorder or brain injury.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Taking mood- or mind-altering medicines or muscle-relaxing medicines during the study
- A diagnosed genetic syndrome
- Past trauma or brain surgery
- Metal implants or a baclofen pump
- Not able to sit still
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- An evaluation by a pediatric neurologist, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMNR) physicians (physiatrists), neonatal developmental specialist, or neonatologist with a diagnosis of CP
- Classified as high-functioning (I or II) at the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS)
- Participants in the control group should have no history of neurological disorder or brain injury
Who cannot take part
- Psychoactive or myorelaxant medication during study procedures
- Metal implants
- Genetic syndrome diagnosis
- History of trauma or brain operation
- Inability to sit still
- Baclofen pump
- Inability or unwillingness of patient or parent/legally authorized representative to give written informed consent
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 6 and 18 years old?
Where in United States
- Cook Children's Medical CenterFort Worth, United StatesContact: Sadra Shahdadian, PhDTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability in early childhood causing serious motor and sensory impairments. Effective interventions for the recovery of motor functions are of profound significance to children with CP, their families, caregivers, and health professionals. Robot-assisted rehabilitation represents a frontier with potential to improve motor functions and induce brain reorganization in children with CP.
The 4 groups in the trial
- Experimental Group ITreatment being tested
Participants in this group will be between the ages of 7 and 18 years old and have a diagnosis of cerebral palsy. Amadeo will be used to train the more-affected hand of participants in this group. The training will last approximately 1 hour per day for 14 successive days. Participants will be asked to first do active finger and passive finger moving, then receive haptic vibration, and finally play interactive games.
Treatment: Robot (Amadeo)-assisted Training
- Control Group INo study treatment, for comparison
Participants in this group will be between the ages of 7 and 18 years old and have a diagnosis of cerebral palsy.
- Experimental Group IITreatment being tested
Participants in this group will be between the ages of 7 and 18 years old and have no history of neurological disorder or brain injury. Amadeo will be used to train the non-dominant hand of participants in this group. The training will last approximately 1 hour per day for 14 successive days. Participants will be asked to first do active finger and passive finger moving, then receive haptic vibration, and finally play interactive games.
Treatment: Robot (Amadeo)-assisted Training
- Control Group IINo study treatment, for comparison
Participants in this group will be between the ages of 7 and 18 years old and have no history of neurological disorder or brain injury.
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
- Robot-assisted Hand Training to Induce Manual Functional Change and Cerebral Neural Plasticity in Children With Cerebral Palsy
- Plain-language title
- Robot-assisted hand training for children with cerebral palsyGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 14 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT06450158, who can take part
- Record updated
- 10 July 2026