An interventional study of CARAT: combined aphasia and robot-assisted arm therapy and Robot-assisted arm therapy in Stroke, Aphasia Following Cerebral Infarction and Hemiparesis After Stroke, sponsored by New York Medical College. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 90 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-05-31.
Sponsored by New York Medical College · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a program that combines language and arm treatment can improve language and movement problems in people with chronic stroke. The mains questions it aims to answer are:
Researchers will compare the effects of this combined treatment with treatment that targets arm movements alone.
7,441 studies on the registry are indexed under Stroke; 2,012 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 28 is below the median of 50 across 5,482 interventional studies indexed under Stroke.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Behavioral: CARAT: combined aphasia and robot-assisted arm therapy
Behavioral: Robot-assisted arm therapy
Participants will receive 18 sessions of robot-assisted arm therapy combined with a standardized picture-word verification therapy task with the goal of improving language and arm movements.
Participants will receive 18 sessions of robot-assisted arm therapy with the goal of improving arm movements.
Philadelphia Naming Test
Time frame: Baseline to 1 week post-treatment
Fugl-Meyer Upper Extremity Motor Assessment
Time frame: Baseline to 1 week post-treatment
Western Aphasia Battery-Revised Aphasia Quotient
Time frame: Baseline to 4 weeks post-treatment
Box and Blocks Test
Time frame: Baseline to 1 and 4 weeks post-training
Apraxia Battery for Adults
Time frame: Baseline to 1 and 4 weeks post-training
Stroke and Aphasia Quality of Life Scale-39
Time frame: Baseline to 1 and 4 weeks post-training
Apraxia of Speech Rating Scale
Time frame: Baseline to 1 and 4 weeks post-training
Arm kinematics
Time frame: Baseline to 1 and 4 weeks post-training
Arm vs. Non-Arm Naming
Time frame: Baseline to 1 and 4 weeks post-training
Plan to share: Yes
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