Trial name or title |
A brain activation study of limb position sense in stroke affected inviduals with and without sensory training and in healthy aged |
Methods |
fMRI will be used to study areas of brain activation During scans participants will perform wrist position tasks with varying degrees of attention Healthy participants will undergo 1 scan while stroke participants will be scanned 3 times (scans will be timed 4 weeks apart) Between the second and third scans stroke participants will be randomly allocated to receive either sensory training (treatment condition) or a sensory exposure (control condition) |
Participants |
Country: Australia Stroke patients and healthy participants No further details were available |
Interventions |
Intervention group: sensory retraining for 4 weeks Control group: sensory exposure for 4 weeks |
Outcomes |
Outcome measures: baseline, 4 weeks, 8 weeks fMRI Unclear of others |
Starting date |
2005 |
Contact information |
Principal investigator: Ettie Ben Shabbat MPT, Center of Clinical Research Excellence, University of Melbourne, PhD Candidate, School of Occupational Therapy, and School of Psychological Sciences at La Trobe University National Stroke Research Institute, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital. Melbourne Australia ebshabat@ nsri.org.au lcarey@nsri.org.au |
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