Movement Sonification in Stroke Rehabilitation

verfasst von

Gerd Schmitz, Jeannine Bergmann, Alfred O. Effenberg, Carmen Krewer, Tong-Hun Hwang, Friedemann Müller

Abstract

Stroke often affects arm functions and thus impairs patients' daily activities. Recently, several studies have shown that additional movement acoustics can enhance motor perception and motor control. Therefore, a new method has been developed that allows providing auditory feedback about arm movement trajectories in real-time for motor rehabilitation after stroke. The present article describes the study protocol for a randomized, controlled, examiner, and patient blinded superiority trial (German Clinical Trials Register, www.drks.de, DRKS00011419), in which the method will be applied to 13 subacute stroke patients with hemiparesis during 12 sessions of 30 min each as additional feedback during the regular movement therapy. As primary outcome, a significant pre-post-change in the Box and Block Test is expected that exceeds the performance increase of 13 patients who will be provided with sham-acoustics. Possible limitations of the method as well as the study design are discussed.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Sportwissenschaft
Institut für Mikroelektronische Systeme

Externe Organisation(en)

Schön Klinik Bad Aibling SE & Co. KG
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Technische Universität München (TUM)

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Frontiers in neurology

Band

9

Anzahl der Seiten

9

ISSN

1664-2295

Publikationsdatum

06.2018

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Neurologie, Klinische Neurologie

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2018.00389 (Zugang: Offen)
https://doi.org/10.15488/3474 (Zugang: Offen)