Sub-Acute Stroke Rehabilitation With AMES

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

83

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

September 1, 2007

Primary Completion Date

February 28, 2011

Study Completion Date

February 28, 2011

Conditions
Cerebrovascular Stroke
Interventions
DEVICE

AMES device (test)

Eighteen treatment sessions for each qualifying subject limb using the AMES device. Each treatment session being 30 minutes long. Sessions to be scheduled preferable 2 to 3 times per week, with the 18 sessions to be completed within the 6 month anniversary date of the subject's stroke.

DEVICE

AMES device (sham)

Eighteen treatment sessions for each qualifying subject limb using the AMES device (sham) in which the limb is moved, but no active assistance is provided by the subject and the vibration is delivered at a very low frequency to the shortening (i.e., rather than lengthening) muscle. Each treatment session to provide thirty minutes of the placebo form of AMES therapy.

DEVICE

AMES device (crossover)

Eighteen treatment sessions for each qualifying subject limb using the AMES device. Each treatment session being 30 minutes long. Sessions to be scheduled preferable 2 to 3 times per week, with the 18 sessions to be completed as soon as possible after the completion of Arm C-1 Sham Comparator.

Trial Locations (5)

30322

Emory University Dept of Rehabilitation Medicine/School of Medicine, Atlanta

60611

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago

92270

Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage

94123

UCSF School of Medicine- Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, San Francisco

99202

NW Medical Rehabilitation, Spokane

Sponsors

Lead Sponsor

Collaborators (1)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Northwest Medical Rehabilitation, Spokane, WA

UNKNOWN

collaborator

Emory University

OTHER

collaborator

University of California, San Francisco

OTHER

collaborator

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

OTHER

collaborator

Eisenhower Medical Center

OTHER

collaborator

Legacy Health System

OTHER

lead

AMES Technology

INDUSTRY