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NCT Number: NCT04574687

Effects of Action Observation Therapy on Fine Motor Skills of Upper Limb Functions in Chronic Stroke Patients.

This study will be conducted to evaluate the outcomes of action observation therapy on fine motor skills of affected upper limb among patients with chronic stroke.

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Key information

Conditions

Chronic Stroke

Age range

30 year–70 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Riphah IU

Lahore, 54000, Pakistan

About this study

The data for study will be collected for the duration of 5 months, data will be collected at 1st, 4th, 8th, 12th and then at 16th week of follow up. It is a Randomized Control Trial. Patients will be selected by Consecutive Sampling from Ittefaq Hospital Trust, Lahore. All patients were right handed prior to stroke. Screening tools used will be Canadian Neurological Scale, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), the Bell Barrage test, and the ideomotor apraxia test (SpinnlerRognoni).Tests for assessment will be Fugl-Meyer test (FM) (of the upper limb), Frenchay Arm test (FAT), Box and Block test (BBT), Modified Ashworth Scale (AS) and Functional Independence Measure Motor items (FIMM). The SPSS version 21 will be used for analyzing data. The descriptive data will be expressed in Frequency and Percentages, while within the group differences will be measured by Mixed Model Anova.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • First-ever stroke,
  • Enrolled 6 months after the event onset with ischemia or primary hemorrhage.
  • All patients were right handed prior to stroke.

Exclusion criteria

  • Posterior circulation infarction,
  • Subarachnoid hemorrhage,
  • Severe forms of neglect and anosognosia (number of errors in Bell Barrage test≥15)
  • Impaired comprehension (Token test score ≤ 17)
  • History of endogenous depression or serious psychiatric disorders, and
  • Severe visual deficits (restricting the access to visual stimuli).

Treatment and study plan

Neurodevelopmental Techniques

Other

)Conventional treatment protocol including active and active-assissted ROM exercises. (b)Proprioceptive neuro-muscular facilitation techniques. (c)Neuromuscular Developmental Techniques.

Action observation therapy

Other

(a) active range of motion (AROM) exercises (10 min), (b) reaching movement or object manipulation (10 min), and (c) UE functional tasks (15 min). + Conventional treatment protocol as in group A

Primary outcomes

  1. Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA):

    Time frame: 2 months

    Scoring. The Fugl-Meyer Assessment scale is an ordinal scale that has 3 points for each item. A zero score is given for the item if the subject cannot do the task. A score of 1 is given when the task is performed partially and a score of 2 is given when the task is performed fully.

  2. Box and Block Test (BBT)

    Time frame: 2 months

    Scoring The score is the number of blocks carried from one compartment to the other in one minute. Score each hand separately.

  3. Frenchay Arm Test (FAT):

    Time frame: 2months

    The Frenchay Arm Test (FAT) is devised for measuring the motor control in proximal joints and dexterity of the upper limb during ADL performance in patients with impairments caused by neurological conditions.Scoring and Score Interpretation Each item is scored as either pass (=1) or fail (=0). Total scores range from 0 to 5.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Riphah International University

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2020
First posted
Oct 5, 2020
Registry last updated
Mar 30, 2021

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