Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: Robot-aided Therapy in Acute Stroke Patients for the Upper Limb Rehabilitation With Long-term Follow-up.
Brief Summary: Numerous studies showed that ascertaining the effectiveness of rehabilitative interventions on conditions leading to long-term disability, such as stroke, is a complex task because the outcome depends on many interacting factors. Several studies underline the importance of brain plasticity and its therapeutic potential in neurological disorders. Accredited theories of cortical reorganization after brain lesion endorse the use of early, intensive, repetitive, and context-related exercise as optimal strategies to promote motor relearning and minimize motor deficit. The use of robotic systems in upper limb motor rehabilitation programs has been already demonstrated to provide safe and intensive treatment to subjects with motor impairments due to a neurological injury: several studies showed the advantages of robotic therapy on chronic post-stroke patients, even if no consistent influence on functional abilities was found and evidence of better results providing intensive treatments, both robotic and conventional rehabilitative techniques, was found. Recent development and recent trial in robot-assisted rehabilitation has shown the great potential of robotic devices for delivering repetitive training, thus facilitating a high intensity and a large dose of training during sub-acute and chronic phases of stroke rehabilitation. The proposed project, through a randomized controlled observer-blind multicenter trial is aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of robot-assisted therapy as additional treatment to the standard physical therapy in the early phase after stroke onset and evaluating in conjunction with EEG and EMG recordings the effects of the rehabilitative treatments in a quantitative, measurable way, by providing reliable and objective methods for measuring functional recovery after stroke.


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A: Arm Label: Experimental Group (EG); Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Device: Robot therapy (NeReBot), Other: Conventional therapy | Arm Label: Control Group (CG); Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Other: Conventional therapy | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: Robot therapy (NeReBot); Assigned to Arm(s): Experimental Group (EG) | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Conventional therapy; Assigned to Arm(s): Control Group (CG), Experimental Group (EG)
B: Arm Label: Traditional physiotherapy; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Procedure: Traditional physiotherapy | Arm Label: Robot Group; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Device: Robot Group | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: Robot Group; Assigned to Arm(s): Robot Group | Intervention Type: PROCEDURE; Name: Traditional physiotherapy; Assigned to Arm(s): Traditional physiotherapy
C: Arm Label: Arm 1; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Device: Robotic Upper Extremity Neurorehabilitation | Arm Label: Arm 2; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Other: Traditional Upper Extremity Exercise Group | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: Robotic Upper Extremity Neurorehabilitation; Assigned to Arm(s): Arm 1 | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Traditional Upper Extremity Exercise Group; Assigned to Arm(s): Arm 2
D: Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: robotic device; Assigned to Arm(s): N/A

Answer: B