Stimulate One Hand to Improve Tactile Perception on the Other

Inclusion Criteria18

• Age: 30-80 years old
• Patients with diagnosis of unilateral (both right and left) ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke
• Stroke event dates at least 3 months before the date of inclusion to the study
• Severe-to-mild sensory loss at the fingers of the hand contralateral to the stroke lesion (affected hand)
• Capacity to provide written consent
• Affiliation to a social security scheme
• Sensory impairment attributable to diabetes history, peripheral vascular disease or neuropathy
• Severe speech disorder, global aphasia and/or cognitive impairment
• Multiple stroke events
• Bilateral stroke event
• History of neurological or psychiatric illness
• Other experimental procedure is forbidden during the weeks where the study is performed
• Pregnant, parturient and lactating women
• Persons deprived of their liberty
• Adult persons subject to a legal protection measure: guardianship, curatorship
• Persons in psychiatric care
• Congenital or acquired malformation/injury of the test fingers
• Impossibility to maintain hand position necessary for the tests due to severe spasticity