Combinational Rehabilitative Therapy and Functional Brain Imaging for Patients Recovering From Motor Stroke
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2015-11-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The present proposal aims to assess whether a combined rehabilitation approach using virtual
reality based therapy with motivational feedback, levodopa for pharmacotherapy and standard
rehabilitative occupational therapy and physiotherapy will lead to signifcantly better
outcomes for stroke recovery.
It is a randomised controlled trial with blinding of the assessors only. It will be preceeded
by a Phase 1 pilot trial of the VR physiotherapy and standard therapy only. Recruited
in-patient rehabilitation ward patients who have recently suffered stroke will be randomized,
through a computer-based random number generator, to either one of two treatment arms:
1. Control occupational therapy + pharmacotherapy for 2 weeks
2. Assisted Virtual-Reality physiotherapy + pharmacotherapy for 2 weeks
Phase:
Phase 3
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Singapore General Hospital
Collaborators:
Hutcabb Consultancy Pte Ltd Singapore University of Technology and Design