Clinical trials: Dexterity
Parkinson's Disease, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Fine Motor Skills in Parkinson's Disease: a Pilot Study
The purpose of this pilot study is to determine the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on brain activity and fine motor skills in patients with Parkinson's disease compared to healthy controls.
- Conditions
- Parkinson's Disease, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, Fine Motor Skills, Handwriting
- Trial name
- NCT02287207
- Testing
- transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- KU Leuven
Fine Motor Skills, Testosterone Concentration
Effect of Exercise Training on Fine Motor Skills
Despite the importance of physical activity for adolescent physical development, the specific impact of different types of exercise training on fine motor skills and testosterone concentration is unknown.
- Trial name
- NCT04734964
- Testing
- exercise training
- Where
- Lithuania
- Volunteers
- 135 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Lithuanian Sports University
Parkinson Disease
Investigation of Validity and Reliability of the Minnesota Manual Dexterity Test in Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a disease that affects upper extremity functional skills with clinical findings such as bradykinesia, rigidity, and hypokinesia, and causes limitations in patients' daily life activities.
- Trial name
- NCT06713707
- Testing
- Manuel dexterity, Manual Dexterity (only MMDT)
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Gazi University
Aging, Manual Dexterity
The Effectiveness of Piano Therapy vs. Piano Listening on Manual Dexterity in the Elderly
Does active piano practice help recover hand dexterity in older adults, or does social interaction and music-listening alone affect motor performance? Researchers hypothesized improved dexterity after active piano playing, but…
- Conditions
- Aging, Manual Dexterity, Piano Therapy
- Trial name
- NCT03372031
- Testing
- Piano training (Active), Piano Training (Passive)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Westminster College
Stroke With Hemiparesis
Strategies for Recovery of Dexterity Post Stroke
Motor learning can be affected by the sensory difficulties that may be experienced as a result of a stroke. This study will help us better understand what kinds of sensory information can help with the re-learning of grasping…
- Trial name
- NCT01977027
- Testing
- Alternate Hand Training or Affected Hand Training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 91 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
Education, Nursing
Effect of Mosaic Art on Episiotomy Repair Skills, Anxiety, and Learning Attitudes in Midwifery Students
Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of mosaic art in midwifery education on episiotomy repair performance, self-efficacy, and anxiety: a randomized controlled trial.
- Conditions
- Education, Nursing, Midwifery Education, Midwifery
- Trial name
- MOSAIC-EPI (NCT07804108)
- Testing
- Mosaic Art Practice, Standard Episiotomy Repair Training
- Volunteers
- 106 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University
Healthy
Human Fine-motor-skills in Weightlessness: Comparison of a Laboratory and an Everyday-like Context
The human performance during weightlessness was tested in a multiplicity of laboratory experiments during parabolic flights and in space.
- Trial name
- FINESKILL (NCT02566213)
- Testing
- Parabolic flight, Motor skills measurements
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Caen
Hand Flexor Tendon, Facial Mobilization
Effect of Myofascial Release on Pain, Grip Strength, Manual Dexterity, and Quality of Life in Late-Term Rehabilitation of Hand Flexor Tendon Repairs
The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of myofascial release exercises performed in the late period compared to classical physiotherapy training in individuals with hand flexor tendon repair.
- Conditions
- Hand Flexor Tendon, Facial Mobilization, Exercise
- Trial name
- NCT07233369
- Testing
- Fascial mobilization therapy, conventional physiotherapy
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 42 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hasan Kalyoncu University
University Students
Investigation of the Effect of Internet Addiction Level in University Students
The internet, which has become a part of our daily life; serves many purposes such as quick access to information, e-mail, and chat, banking and shopping, having a good time, using social networking sites.
- Trial name
- NCT05065723
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 127 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University
Stroke
Manual Dexterity Control After Cerebellar Stimulation
This study will assess the putative advantages of cerebellar stimulation on motor learning abilities of stroke patients. In order to have a control group to refer to, the effect of cerebellar stimulation on healthy young and old…
- Trial name
- MADECCS (NCT03092570)
- Testing
- With stimulation, No stimulation
- Where
- 2 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier St Anne
Arthralgia
Effect of a Specific Hand Intervention in Women With Arthralgia Secondary to Hormone Therapy Following Breast Cancer.
This study aims to evaluate the impact of a 12-week hand exercise program on pain, manual dexterity, and hand function in women experiencing hand joint pain (arthralgia) due to hormone therapy after breast cancer.
- Trial name
- NCT06746376
- Testing
- Occupational Therapy
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universidad Europea de Madrid
COPD
Impairments That Affect Correct Inhaler Use in COPD
INHALE is a one-year, multi-site observational research study funded by Viatris, with two aims: 1. Determine the prevalence of both cognitive impairment and impaired manual dexterity in stable out-patients with chronic…
- Trial name
- INHALE (NCT06135324)
- Where
- 9 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 500 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- COPD Foundation
Cervical Spinal Cord Plasticity
Cervical Spinal Cord Associative Plasticity
Associative plasticity has been used to promote functional recovery from conditions affecting movement. Prior work from the Carmel laboratory has shown that paired associative stimulation protocols timed to converge in the…
- Trial name
- NCT07539025
- Testing
- SCAP, MagPro X100, Digitimer DS8R
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Brain, Virtual Reality
Comparing Brain Cortical Activity in Real and Immersive Virtual Reality Manual Dexterity Tasks
With advances in technology, virtual reality (VR) is increasingly used in various fields, including rehabilitation, motor learning, and neuroscience.
- Conditions
- Brain, Virtual Reality, EEG, fNIRS
- Trial name
- NCT06897332
- Testing
- Real-world manual dexterity task, Immersive virtual reality with controllers, Immersive virtual reality with hand-tracking
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 12 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain
Cold Exposure
The Influence of Race and MitoQ Supplementation on Skin Blood Flow in the Cold
Individuals who operate in cold weather are at risk of developing cold injuries, for example, frostbite. They also often experience a loss of hand function and joint mobility due to a decrease in skin temperature and blood flow.
- Trial name
- NCT06784531
- Testing
- Mitoquinone mesylate (MitoQ), Cold Water Hand Immersion, Cold Air Exposure
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 26 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
Schizophrenia
"Manual Dexterity and Oculomotor Control in Schizophrenia"
The investigators recently showed that visuomotor integration was significantly altered in schizophrenic patients during: (i) a grip force task (Teremetz et al., 2014), and (ii) a saccadic paradigm (oculomotor task)(Amado et al.…
- Trial name
- MADOCS (NCT02826629)
- Testing
- Manual dexterity, Oculomotor movements, TMS coupled to EMG recording
- Where
- 2 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 105 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier St Anne
Motor Activity
Establishing of the Inter-rater Reliability and Variability of Selected Standardized Tests Performed in Czech Language
The main aim of the pilot project is to establish inter-rater reliability, internal variability and variability of results got in two different ways of the Nine Hole Peg Test, Purdue Pegboard Test and Box and Block Test…
- Trial name
- NCT04967677
- Testing
- Nine Hole Peg Test, Purdue Pegboard Test, Box and Block Test
- Where
- Czechia
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Charles University, Czech Republic
Tendon Injury - Hand
Effects of Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy After Flexor Tendon Injury
In this study aims to investigate the effects of extracorporeal shock wave therapy, applied to the intervention group in addition to the rehabilitation program applied to the control and intervention groups, on range of motion…
- Trial name
- NCT07320807
- Testing
- Ekstracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 56 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Kirsehir Ahi Evran Universitesi
Chronic Stroke
Combine Effects of Brunnstorm Movement Therapy and LLLT in Chronic Stroke Patient
The primary objective of this study is to determine the combined effects of Brunnstorm movement therapy and low level laser therapy on upper limb function in chronic stroke patient.
- Trial name
- NCT06292481
- Testing
- Brunnstorm movement therapy, Combined Brunnstorm Movement therapy and low level laser therapy
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Riphah International University
Down Syndrome, Hemiparesis
Kinematic Analysis of Manual Dexterity
The following study aims to standardize the instrumented BBT for the objective evaluation of upper limb joint kinematics using MoCap on a population of healthy subjects between 4 and 18 years of age.
- Conditions
- Down Syndrome, Hemiparesis, Healthy Subjects
- Trial name
- SUPERFUN (NCT07875127)
- Testing
- Inertial Measurement Unit and Box and Block test
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- IRCCS San Raffaele Roma