Functional Rehabilitation of Upper Limb Apraxia in Patients Poststroke
Active, not recruiting
Phase N/A Results N/AEligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Mild-moderate stroke after two month of the cerebrovascular attack.- Upper limb apraxia lasting at least 2 months.
- Less than 9 points in validated Apraxia Screen of TULIA (AST) following Vanbellingen et al., 2010.
- Voluntary participation.
- The neurologist, the occupational therapist and the patient judge the intervention to be necessary.
Exclusion Criteria
- History of apraxia before current stroke.- Stroke had occurred less than two months or more than twenty four month ago.
- Cognitive impairment (< 23 in normal school population and < 20 points with a low education or illiteracy, in Spanish validation of Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)).
- Severe aphasia.
- Previous brain tumour.
- History of other previous neurologic disorders.
- Mother tongue different to Spanish.
- Drugs addiction.
- Intellectual or learning disorders.
- Brain damage for traumatism or neurodegenerative process.
- A history of serious consciousness impairments
- Uncooperativeness, presence of orthopedic or other disabling disorders.
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Recruitment
- Enrollment: 40
- Gender: Both
- Minimum Age: 25 Years
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
- 1 location, 1 country
Principal Investigator
- MÂȘ Encarnacion ME Aguilar, PdH
Department of Physiotherapy. Faculty of Sciences of Health. University of Granada (Granada). Spain