Tests robotic hand training with and without mental imagery after stroke
Tests robotic hand training, with or without mental imagery, in adults with chronic stroke.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Riphah International University
- Where
- Rawalpindi, PakistanSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Effects of Mental Imagery Training Combined With Task Oriented Training by EMG-Driven Soft Robotic Hand Stroke in Stroke
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 40 people, planned
- Started
- 1 Apr 2026
- Expected to end
- 30 Nov 2026
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Mental imagery training combined with Robotic hand training
- Robotic hand training
- Record updated
- 5 June 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 6 months or more after a stroke who have weakness on one side of the body. It tests robotic hand training with and without mental imagery training.
- Age
- 18 to 70 years
- Sex
- All sexes can join
- Disease stage
- Chronic stroke (6 months after the onset of stroke) with pure one-sided muscle weakness (unilateral motor paresis)
- Biomarker or test result
- Detectable residual signals from the affected side's finger flexor and extensor muscles (Flexor digitorum and Extensor Digitorum). Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS) score of finger extensor less than or equal to 3. MMSE score 28.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Severe dysphasia with inadequate communication
- Any other medical or psychological condition that affects the ability to follow the study protocol
- History of other neurological disease or psychiatric disorders, including alcoholism and substance abuse
- Cannot sit up for at least 45 minutes
- Cannot give informed consent
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Participants clinically diagnosed with stroke in chronic stage (6 months after the onset of stroke) with a pure unilateral motor paresis after stroke
- 18-70 years of age
- Sufficient cognition to follow simple instructions and understand the content and purpose of study (MMSE score 28)
- Able to sit up for at least 45 minutes
- Detectable residual signals from the affected side's Flexor digitorum (FD) and Extensor Digitorum (ED) muscles
- Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS) score of finger extensor less than or to 3
- Ability to provide informed consent
Who cannot take part
- Any additional medical or psychological condition affecting their ability to comply with the study protocol
- History of other neurological disease or psychiatric disorders, including alcoholism and substance abuse
- Patients with severe dysphasia with inadequate communication
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 70 years old?
Where in Pakistan
- Railway General HospitalRawalpindi, PakistanContact: Arshad Nawaz Malik, PhD RehabTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
This randomized controlled trial is to determine the effects of robotic hand training in improving upper limb motor function and coordination with and without mental imagery training in chronic stroke patients
The 2 groups in the trial
- Mental imagery training with Robotic hand training GroupTreatment being tested
Treatment: Mental imagery training combined with Robotic hand training
- Robotic hand trainingExisting treatment, for comparison
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
- Effects of Mental Imagery Training Combined With Task Oriented Training by EMG-Driven Soft Robotic Hand Stroke in Stroke
- Plain-language title
- Tests robotic hand training with and without mental imagery after strokeGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 13 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT07629011, who can take part
- Record updated
- 5 June 2026