Combinational Rehabilitative Therapy and Functional Brain Imaging for Patients Recovering From Motor Stroke

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

Timeline

Start

2014-01

Primary completion

2015-11

Completion

2015-11

Drugs

Indications