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Hybrid Robot+FES Stroke Rehabilitation
Led by University of Maryland, Baltimore · Updated on 2025-12-18
60
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
282 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The investigators have developed a novel robot-guided stretching under intelligent control and combine it with active movement training, which helped increase joint ROM, reduce spasticity and joint stiffness, increase muscle force output, and improve locomotion. However, for stroke survivors with sensorimotor impairment, their peripheral muscle may not sufficiently be recruited. Functional electrical stimulation (FES), has been shown its advantage to activate the peripheral muscles for people with neurological conditions. The investigators thus make a hybrid robot-FES rehabilitation system, combining the advantage of robot and FES technologies for stroke motor recovery. The investigators further would like to translate the technologies from lab to home-based training. Thus, the investigators will conduct a randomized, controlled, primarily home-based clinical trial using an ankle robot alone or combined with functional electrical stimulation (FES) to treat sensorimotor and locomotion impairments post-stroke.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Hybrid Robot+FES Stroke Rehabilitation
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Age 18-85
- Able to walk at least 10 meters without human assistance, with or without an assistive device
- At least 6 months post stroke
- Have a caregiver to assist with training at home
You will not qualify if you...
- Having expressive and receptive aphasia
- Unable to follow multi-step commands
- Currently enrolled in another lower limb rehabilitation program
- Severe pain in the paralyzed lower limb
- Ankle plantar flexion contracture greater than 30 degrees
- Having implanted electronic devices such as a pacemaker, spinal cord stimulator, or deep brain stimulator because FES may interfere with their functions
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
L
Li-qun Zhang, PhD
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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