Movement Sonification in Stroke Rehabilitation

authored by

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.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Sports Science
Institute of Microelectronic Systems

External Organisation(s)

Schön Klinik Bad Aibling SE & Co. KG
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Type

Article

Journal

Frontiers in neurology

Volume

9

No. of pages

9

ISSN

1664-2295

Publication date

06.2018

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Neurology, Clinical Neurology

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2018.00389 (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.15488/3474 (Access: Open)