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Status unknownNCT04013750Updated Jul 10, 2019

Effect of mCIMT on Upper Extremity Functions of Stroke Patients With Right/Left Hemiplegia

An interventional study of Modified Constraint Induced Movement Therapy in Stroke Patients, sponsored by Istanbul University. Status unknown at 1 site in Turkey. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-07-10.

Sponsored by Istanbul University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Jul 2019), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year 3 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Jan 2018, registered Apr 2019).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
40
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The investigators aimed To analyze effect of modified constraint induced movement therapy on upper extremity functions and quality of life of subacute and chronic phase stroke patients with right/left hemisphere damage. A total of 40 patients (20 patients with right hemiplegia and 20 patients with left hemiplegia) were enrolled in our prospective, randomized and controlled trial. Patients were randomized in to three groups. The first group consists of 10 right hemiplegia patients and the second group consists of 10 left hemiplegia patients. First and second group of patients had 10 sessions of constraint induced movement therapy as groups of 4, 5 days a week. Each patient had modified constraint induced movement therapy 1 hour a day with professional support and performed home program by themselves 3 hours a day. Patients' less affected hands were limited by the help of a glove %50 of the time they were awake. Patients were examined before treatment, just after treatment and 3 months after treatment using Box-Block Test, cubes lined, card turned and object gripped in 30 seconds, time it takes to grip and carry a water filled glass to their mouth and putting it back, Motor Activity Log (MAL), Stroke Impact Scale, Fugl-Meyer Motor Assessment Scale.

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For the rehabilitation of the paretic upper extremity, the use of constraint induced movement therapy and the use of modified constraint induced movement therapy are the most effective treatment strategies. The investigators aimed To analyze effect of modified constraint induced movement therapy on upper extremity functions and quality of life of subacute and chronic phase stroke patients with right/left hemisphere damage.

A total of 40 patients (20 patients with right hemiplegia and 20 patients with left hemiplegia) were enrolled in our prospective, randomized and controlled trial. Patients were randomized in to three groups. The first group consists of 10 right hemiplegia patients and the second group consists of 10 left hemiplegia patients. First and second group of patients had 10 sessions of constraint induced movement therapy as groups of 4, 5 days a week. Each patient had modified constraint induced movement therapy 1 hour a day with professional support and performed home program by themselves 3 hours a day. Patients' less affected hands were limited by the help of a glove %50 of the time they were awake. 10 patients with right hemiplegia and 10 patients with left hemiplegia formed the control group and these patients were in line for inpatient rehabilitation programme. Patients were examined before treatment, just after treatment and 3 months after treatment using Box-Block Test, cubes lined, card turned and object gripped in 30 seconds, time it takes to grip and carry a water filled glass to their mouth and putting it back, Motor Activity Log (MAL), Stroke Impact Scale, Fugl-Meyer Motor Assessment Scale. Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test and Friedman test were used for intragroup comparison of data and Kruskal-Wallis test was used to compare data between groups.

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Conditions studied

  • Stroke Patients

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In context

Stroke

7,286 studies on the registry are indexed under Stroke; 2,007 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 40 is below the median of 50 across 5,369 interventional studies indexed under Stroke.

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Lead sponsor

Istanbul University is the lead sponsor of 496 studies on the registry; 79 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients in subacute and chronic period (3 months after stroke)
  • Modified Ashworth scale in the hemiplegic arm with 3 or more spasticity
  • No pain in the hemiplegic arm
  • MMSE 20 and above
  • Without major medical problems
  • No previous stroke history
  • Adequate stability to walk when healthy arm is immobilized
  • Active 20 degrees wrist extension and 10 degrees interphalangeal and metacarpophalangeal extension (these movements should be repeated 3 times in 1 minute)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Bilateral stroke or brainstem affected
  • Active 20-degree wrist extension and 10-degree interphalangeal and metacarpophalangeal extension
  • Global aphasia or cognitive disorders that may affect understanding of test instructions
  • Patients with major medical problems that may affect participation
  • Existence of neglect
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
40 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    left hemiplegia

    Patients in the left hemiplegia group had 10 sessions of constraint induced movement therapy as groups of 4, 5 days a week. Each patient had modified constraint induced movement therapy 1 hour a day with professional support and performed home program by themselves 3 hours a day. Patients' less affected hands were limited by the help of a glove %50 of the time they were awake

    Other: Modified Constraint Induced Movement Therapy

  • Experimental
    right hemiplegia

    Patients in the right hemiplegia group had 10 sessions of constraint induced movement therapy as groups of 4, 5 days a week. Each patient had modified constraint induced movement therapy 1 hour a day with professional support and performed home program by themselves 3 hours a day. Patients' less affected hands were limited by the help of a glove %50 of the time they were awake

    Other: Modified Constraint Induced Movement Therapy

  • No intervention
    control

    10 patients with right hemiplegia and 10 patients with left hemiplegia formed the control group and these patients were in line for inpatient rehabilitation programme.

Interventions

  • OtherModified Constraint Induced Movement Therapy

    constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) is characterized by the restraint of the less effected upper limb accompanied by the shaping and repetitive task-oriented training of more affected upper extremity.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Motor Activity Log

    Motor Activity Log is developed to determine the frequency and quality of use of the affected arm It consists of two scales that question how often the affected side's upper extremity is used for each activity during the 28-day activity (Usage Quantity Scale) and how well it can perform the activity if it uses it. On both scales, the patient scores between 0-5. The score that can be obtained is between 0-5 points and the high score indicates good frequency of use and good quality of movement.

    Time frame: Patients were examined at baseline

  2. Motor Activity Log

    Motor Activity Log is developed to determine the frequency and quality of use of the affected arm It consists of two scales that question how often the affected side's upper extremity is used for each activity during the 28-day activity (Usage Quantity Scale) and how well it can perform the activity if it uses it. On both scales, the patient scores between 0-5. The score that can be obtained is between 0-5 points and the high score indicates good frequency of use and good quality of movement.

    Time frame: Patients were examined 2 weeks after baseline

  3. Motor Activity Log

    Motor Activity Log is developed to determine the frequency and quality of use of the affected arm It consists of two scales that question how often the affected side's upper extremity is used for each activity during the 28-day activity (Usage Quantity Scale) and how well it can perform the activity if it uses it. On both scales, the patient scores between 0-5. The score that can be obtained is between 0-5 points and the high score indicates good frequency of use and good quality of movement.

    Time frame: Patients were examined 3 months after baseline

  4. Fugl-Meyer Motor Assessment Scale

    The Fugl-Meyer Motor Rating Scale, which assesses strength, reflexes and coordination, reflects the stages of motor development. In the evaluation, each item is scored over 2 points. In the upper extremity assessment, 53-66 points are considered as full capacity, 48-52 points are defined as capacity, 32-47 points are considered as limited capacity, and 31 points are considered as under-capacity.

    Time frame: Patients were examined at baseline

  5. Fugl-Meyer Motor Assessment Scale

    The Fugl-Meyer Motor Rating Scale, which assesses strength, reflexes and coordination, reflects the stages of motor development. In the evaluation, each item is scored over 2 points. In the upper extremity assessment, 53-66 points are considered as full capacity, 48-52 points are defined as capacity, 32-47 points are considered as limited capacity, and 31 points are considered as under-capacity.

    Time frame: Patients were examined 2 weeks after baseline

  6. Fugl-Meyer Motor Assessment Scale

    The Fugl-Meyer Motor Rating Scale, which assesses strength, reflexes and coordination, reflects the stages of motor development. In the evaluation, each item is scored over 2 points. In the upper extremity assessment, 53-66 points are considered as full capacity, 48-52 points are defined as capacity, 32-47 points are considered as limited capacity, and 31 points are considered as under-capacity.

    Time frame: Patients were examined 3 months after baseline

  7. Box-Block Test

    Box-Block Test

    Time frame: Patients were examined at baseline

  8. Box-Block Test

    Box-Block Test

    Time frame: Patients were examined 2 weeks after baseline

  9. Box-Block Test

    Box-Block Test

    Time frame: Patients were examined 3 months after baseline

  10. exercise assessment parameters-cubes lined

    cubes lined in 30 seconds

    Time frame: Patients were examined at baseline

  11. exercise assessment parameters-cubes lined

    cubes lined in 30 seconds

    Time frame: Patients were examined 2 weeks after baseline

  12. exercise assessment parameters-cubes lined

    cubes lined in 30 seconds

    Time frame: Patients were examined 3 months after baseline

  13. exercise assessment parameters-card turned

    card turned in 30 seconds

    Time frame: Patients were examined at baseline

  14. exercise assessment parameters-card turned

    card turned in 30 seconds

    Time frame: Patients were examined 2 weeks after baseline

  15. exercise assessment parameters-card turned

    card turned in 30 seconds

    Time frame: Patients were examined 3 months after baseline

  16. exercise assessment parameters-object gripped

    object gripped in 30 seconds

    Time frame: Patients were examined at baseline

  17. exercise assessment parameters-object gripped

    object gripped in 30 seconds

    Time frame: Patients were examined 2 weeks after baseline

  18. exercise assessment parameters-object gripped

    object gripped in 30 seconds

    Time frame: Patients were examined 3 months after baseline

  19. exercise assessment parameters-water

    time it takes to grip and carry a water filled glass to their mouth and putting it back

    Time frame: Patients were examined at baseline

  20. exercise assessment parameters-water

    time it takes to grip and carry a water filled glass to their mouth and putting it back

    Time frame: Patients were examined 2 weeks after baseline

  21. exercise assessment parameters-water

    time it takes to grip and carry a water filled glass to their mouth and putting it back

    Time frame: Patients were examined 3 months after baseline

Secondary outcomes

  1. Stroke Impact Scale

    Stroke Impact Scale 3,0; The aim of the study is to evaluate the perception of the quality of life after stroke by the patients themselves or their caregivers. It is a stroke-specific, patient-centered quality of life measure. It consists of 8 subsections and 59 questions. Each question is scored by evaluating the difficulty experienced in the last week on a 5-point scale. It also includes the assessment of post-stroke recovery perception with a visual analog scale of 0-100 points (0: no improvement, 100: complete recovery)

    Time frame: Patients were examined at baseline

  2. Stroke Impact Scale

    Stroke Impact Scale 3,0; The aim of the study is to evaluate the perception of the quality of life after stroke by the patients themselves or their caregivers. It is a stroke-specific, patient-centered quality of life measure. It consists of 8 subsections and 59 questions. Each question is scored by evaluating the difficulty experienced in the last week on a 5-point scale. It also includes the assessment of post-stroke recovery perception with a visual analog scale of 0-100 points (0: no improvement, 100: complete recovery)

    Time frame: Patients were examined 2 weeks after baseline

  3. Stroke Impact Scale

    Stroke Impact Scale 3,0; The aim of the study is to evaluate the perception of the quality of life after stroke by the patients themselves or their caregivers. It is a stroke-specific, patient-centered quality of life measure. It consists of 8 subsections and 59 questions. Each question is scored by evaluating the difficulty experienced in the last week on a 5-point scale. It also includes the assessment of post-stroke recovery perception with a visual analog scale of 0-100 points (0: no improvement, 100: complete recovery)

    Time frame: Patients were examined 3 months after baseline

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Istanbul University Istanbul Medicine Faculty
    Istanbul, Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation, Turkey
    • ayşe yalıman, profesor · Contact
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Yadav RK, Sharma R, Borah D, Kothari SY. Efficacy of Modified Constraint Induced Movement Therapy in the Treatment of Hemiparetic Upper Limb in Stroke Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial. J Clin Diagn Res. 2016 Nov;10(11):YC01-YC05. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2016/23468.8899. Epub 2016 Nov 1. PubMed 28050492 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 10, 2019, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT04013750
Lead sponsor
Istanbul University
Responsible party
Cansin Medin Ceylan (assistant doctor, Istanbul University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jul 10, 2019
Start date
Jan 2, 2018
Primary completion
Nov 21, 2019 (estimated)
Completion
Nov 21, 2019 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 10, 2019

Study contacts

cansın medin ceylan, asistant
Contact
cansinmedin@hotmail.com
531-575-9539
ayşe yalıman, professor
Contact
531-575-9539
ayşe yalıman, professor
study director · istanbul university physical medicine and rehabilitation

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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