A Novel Patient-Tailored, Cumulative Neurotechnology-Based Therapy for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation in Severely Impaired Chronic Stroke Patients: The AVANCER Study Protocol (original) (raw)

Frontiers in Neurology, 2022

Abstract

Effective, patient-tailored rehabilitation to restore upper-limb motor function in severely impaired stroke patients is still missing. If suitably combined and administered in a personalized fashion, neurotechnologies offer a large potential to assist rehabilitative therapies to enhance individual treatment effects. AVANCER (clinicaltrials.gov NCT04448483) is a two-center proof-of-concept trial with an individual based cumulative longitudinal intervention design aiming at reducing upper-limb motor impairment in severely affected stroke patients with the help of multiple neurotechnologies. AVANCER will determine feasibility, safety, and effectivity of this innovative intervention. Thirty chronic stroke patients with a Fugl-Meyer assessment of the upper limb (FM-UE) <20 will be recruited at two centers. All patients will undergo the cumulative personalized intervention within two phases: the first uses an EEG-based brain-computer interface to trigger a variety of patient-tailored m...

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