Rehabilitation Robotics After a Stroke

Launched by UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, BREST · Jun 27, 2011

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke of the middle cerebral arteria territory
• • 18 to 80 years old
• • stroke onset between 3 weeks to 3 months,with or without aphasia, with or without lateral neglect and homonymous hemianopia, with or without visual neglect
• • 10\<or= Fugl Meyer upper limb Score \<or= 40
• • upper limbs pain less or equal than 3/10 (VAS)
• • inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation
• • signed inform consent
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke of anterior or posterior cerebral artery
• • ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke of the brainstem
• • major aphasia evaluated by a Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BDAE) score less or equal to 3
• • asthenia not allowing to work 60 minutes with the robot.
• • serious visual deficiency not allowing to use the robot
• • impossibility to install the arm on the robot because of a serious and uncontrolled spasticity or for any other reason
• • pronounced and constant muscular contractures, or deformation affecting the use of the extremity
• • upper limb's pain superior to 3/10 and/or being worse at the active and passive mobilization
• • serious infection and/or instability of vital functions
• • perfusion of the affected upper limb not removable
• • incapacity to stay on a chair
• • contraindicated sitting position
• • permanent deviation of the head and\\or of the eyes
• • perturbed or non-cooperative patient
• • patients that must have to be isolated due to an infection process
• • bone fracture of the paretic limb with an onset less than 3 months stabilized or not