Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: Functional Interest of Non Invasive Brain Stimulation During Physiotherapy at a Subacute Phase Post Stroke (Anodal Protocol).
Brief Summary: Previous research that utilises single sessions of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) have demonstrated functional improvements. However these improvements are usually short-lived, lasting less than one hour before the patient's performance returns to baseline. In these studies, tDCS is typically applied with the goal of adaptively enhancing functional activation of pathologically under-active tissue or suppressing pathologically over-active tissue. Interestingly, a small body of evidence is now emerging to indicate that tDCS can improve learning/memory functions in healthy controls. The goal of this study is to test if the application of tDCS could enhance learning and/or memory for physiotherapy rehabilitation, which may in turn lead to correspondingly greater motor improvement. Patients at a subacute stage (1 to 6 month post stroke) will attend for 10 consecutive daily sessions of tDCS.

This research has important implications; previous studies suggest that such an approach has the potential to facilitate physical rehabilitation post-stroke and establish tDCS as a clinically viable rehabilitative tool. Recovery of motor skills may take many months to acquire and therefore strategies that have the potential to enhance acquisition of skill are of practical and scientific interest.


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A: Arm Label: Anodal tDCS; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Device: DC-Stimulator to apply tDCS | Arm Label: Sham tDCS; Type: SHAM_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Device: DC-Stimulator to apply Sham tDCS | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: DC-Stimulator to apply tDCS; Assigned to Arm(s): Anodal tDCS | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: DC-Stimulator to apply Sham tDCS; Assigned to Arm(s): Sham tDCS
B: Arm Label: Upper limb motor function training + tDCS; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Device: transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) | Arm Label: upper limb motor function training + sham tDCS; Type: SHAM_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Device: transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); Assigned to Arm(s): Upper limb motor function training + tDCS, upper limb motor function training + sham tDCS
C: Arm Label: Transcranial direct current stimulation; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Device: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) | Arm Label: ARM 2; Type: SHAM_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Device: Sham | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); Assigned to Arm(s): Transcranial direct current stimulation | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: Sham; Assigned to Arm(s): ARM 2
D: Arm Label: Sham tDCS and motor training: sham comparator; Type: SHAM_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Device: Sham tDCS | Arm Label: Anodal tDCS and motor training: experimental; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Device: anodal tDCS (device) Eldith DC-Stimulator | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: anodal tDCS (device) Eldith DC-Stimulator; Assigned to Arm(s): Anodal tDCS and motor training: experimental | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: Sham tDCS; Assigned to Arm(s): Sham tDCS and motor training: sham comparator

Answer: D