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Adaptive Dance Activities for People With Stroke

Improving Participation in Stroke Survivors With Hemiparesis by Movement Improvisation Skill Building and Care Transition-friendly Adaptive Dance Activities: A Randomised Controlled Trial

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 15 May 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The project will investigate the effects of a novel 12-week Movement Improvisation Skill-building and Adaptive Dance Intervention (MDI) on participation, balance, mobility, balance confidence, psychological well-being, and health-related quality of life in survivors with hemiparesis.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
160 (estimated)
First submitted
9 May 2026
Start date
1 Jan 2025
Primary completion date
31 Dec 2028
Lead sponsor
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Diseases
Stroke
NCT number
NCT07591272

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Planned participants: 160
  • From 1 Jan 2025 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2028
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Other illness

  • subdural or epidural haemorrhage,
  • neurologic, orthopaedic, muscular, rheumatic or vestibular condition that can interfere with participation in the intervention such as seizure or spinal injury,
  • mental condition such as depression or schizophrenia, or
  • visual or auditory impairment that cannot be corrected by visual/hearing aids.

Other

  • transient ischaemic attack,
  • cerebrovascular event due to brain tumour or a head injury,

Who the study is looking for

  • a first-ever/recurrent ischaemic/haemorrhagic stroke confirmed by imaging tests,
  • receiving in-patient care at an acute stroke unit,
  • a National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) total score of \<16 (mild to moderate stroke),
  • hemiparesis after stroke with the affected limb(s) scoring 1-3 on the NIHSS motor arm and/or motor leg items, respectively (drift to no effort against gravity),
  • a modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score of 2-4 (slight to moderately severe disability), and
  • a Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score of \>2nd percentile.

Age in the registry: 18 years to 80 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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Hong KongHong Kong SAR ChinaRecruiting

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