Error-enhanced Learning & Recovery in 2 & 3 Dimensions
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
20 participants
Mar 1, 2023
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This study is being done to see how errors lead to improvement. Specifically, we are evaluating the errors stroke participants make during an upper extremity exercise program when reaching for a target using their affected arm. Once we understand the participant's reaching errors, we plan to create a customized reaching exercise according to the individual's specific error tendencies which will lead to better performance on movement ability after training.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria4
- years of age or older
- Chronic stroke (8+ months post stroke event) with primary motor cortex involvement
- Hemiparesis
- Some degree of both shoulder and elbow movement capability
Exclusion Criteria20
- Bilateral paresis
- Severe tactile deficits using the Two-Point Discrimination Test (participant must detect\<11mm)
- Severe proprioceptive deficits
- Severe spasticity (Modified Ashworth \>3) preventing movement
- Aphasia, cognitive impairment, or affective dysfunction that would influence the ability to perform the experiment
- Visual deficits, and hemispatial neglect that would prevent the subjects from seeing the targets.
- Inability to provide an informed consent
- severe current medical problems
- diffuse/multiple lesion sites or multiple stroke events
- Inability to attain and maintain testing positions
- Botox injection to the affected upper extremity within the previous 4 months
- Concurrent participation in upper extremity rehabilitation either as part of a research intervention protocol or a prescribed therapy
- Participation in previous, similar robotics intervention study
- Other neurological issues
- None of the following special populations will be included in this research study:
- Adults unable to consent
- Individuals who are not yet adults (infants, children, teenagers)
- Pregnant women
- Prisoners
- Vulnerable Populations
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Interventions
Participants will complete a reaching experiment using the robotic arm with error fields turned on.
Participants will complete a reaching experiment using the robotic arm with error fields turned off.
Locations(3)
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NCT05180786