Error-enhanced Learning & Recovery in 2 & 3 Dimensions

Description

This study is being done to see how errors lead to improvement. Specifically, we are evaluating the errors stroke participants make during an upper extremity exercise program when reaching for a target using their affected arm. Once we understand the participant's reaching errors, we plan to create a customized reaching exercise according to the individual's specific error tendencies which will lead to better performance on movement ability after training.

Conditions

Stroke, Cerebral Vascular Accident (CVA)/Stroke

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Study overview

This study is being done to see how errors lead to improvement. Specifically, we are evaluating the errors stroke participants make during an upper extremity exercise program when reaching for a target using their affected arm. Once we understand the participant's reaching errors, we plan to create a customized reaching exercise according to the individual's specific error tendencies which will lead to better performance on movement ability after training.

Error-enhanced Learning & Recovery in 2 & 3 Dimensions

Error-enhanced Learning & Recovery in 2 & 3 Dimensions

Condition
Stroke
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Chicago

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (Healthy Participants), Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611

Chicago

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611

Chicago

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. 18 years of age or older
  • 2. Chronic stroke (8+ months post stroke event) with primary motor cortex involvement
  • 3. Hemiparesis
  • 4. Some degree of both shoulder and elbow movement capability
  • 1. Bilateral paresis
  • 2. Severe tactile deficits using the Two-Point Discrimination Test (participant must detect\<11mm)
  • 3. Severe proprioceptive deficits
  • 4. Severe spasticity (Modified Ashworth \>3) preventing movement
  • 5. Aphasia, cognitive impairment, or affective dysfunction that would influence the ability to perform the experiment
  • 6. Visual deficits, and hemispatial neglect that would prevent the subjects from seeing the targets.
  • 7. Inability to provide an informed consent
  • 8. severe current medical problems
  • 9. diffuse/multiple lesion sites or multiple stroke events
  • 10. Inability to attain and maintain testing positions
  • 11. Botox injection to the affected upper extremity within the previous 4 months
  • 12. Concurrent participation in upper extremity rehabilitation either as part of a research intervention protocol or a prescribed therapy
  • 13. Participation in previous, similar robotics intervention study
  • 14. Other neurological issues
  • * Adults unable to consent
  • * Individuals who are not yet adults (infants, children, teenagers)
  • * Pregnant women
  • * Prisoners
  • * Vulnerable Populations

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab,

James Patton, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Study Record Dates

2025-12-30