In-home Telerehabilitation for Quadriplegic Hand Function

PHASE2/PHASE3CompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

13

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

May 31, 2007

Primary Completion Date

December 31, 2010

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2010

Conditions
Spinal Cord InjuryQuadriplegiaTetraplegia
Interventions
PROCEDURE

Telerehabilitation of hand function

6 weeks, 1 hr/day FES-assisted exercise therapy on a workstation, supervised over the Internet.

PROCEDURE

Conventional exercise therapy

For one hour per day subjects perform range-of-motion tasks with a wristlet weight (20 min), precision tasks with a computer mouse (20 min) and receive cyclical electrical stimulation of hand muscles (20 min).

Trial Locations (1)

T6C1M8

Centre for Neuroscience, University of Alberta, Edmonton

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

International Spinal Research Trust

OTHER

collaborator

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research

OTHER

lead

University of Alberta

OTHER

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