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- Clinical Trial NCT05777070
Effects of Remote Ischemic Conditioning on Bimanual Skill Learning and Corticospinal Excitability in Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy (RIC)
March 19, 2023 updated by: Swati Manoharrao Surkar, East Carolina University
Remote Ischemic Conditioning Combined With Bimanual Task Training to Enhance Bimanual Skill Learning and Corticospinal Excitability in Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy
Unilateral cerebral palsy (UCP) is a leading cause of childhood disability.
An early brain injury impairs the upper extremity function, bimanual coordination, and impacts the child's independence.
The existing therapeutic interventions have higher training doses and modest effect sizes.
Thus, there is a critical need to find an effective priming agent to enhance bimanual skill learning in children with UCP.
This study aims to determine the effects of a novel priming agent, remote ischemic conditioning (RIC), when paired with bimanual skill training to enhance bimanual skill learning and to augment skill dependent plasticity in children with UCP.
Study Overview
Status
Recruiting
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Ischemic conditioning (IC) is a phenomenon of protecting the target organ from ischemia by directly exposing it to brief episodes of sublethal ischemia.
RIC is a clinically feasible way of performing IC where episodes of ischemia and reperfusion are delivered with cyclic inflation and deflation of a blood pressure cuff on the arm or leg.
Pre-clinical and preliminary clinical trials in humans show neuroprotective effects of RIC.
Investigators prior work has shown that when paired with motor training, RIC enhances motor learning in healthy individuals.
Based on these diversified benefits of RIC, the central hypothesis is that the multifactorial mechanisms of RIC can be harnessed as a priming agent to enhance motor learning and augment neuroplasticity in children with UCP.
The Specific Aims are: 1) to determine the effects of RIC + training on bimanual skill learning and bimanual coordination, and 2) to determine the effects of RIC + training on corticospinal excitability in children with UCP.
In this triple blind, randomized controlled trial, 46 children with UCP, ages 6-16 years will first undergo bimanual speed stack performance, functional upper extremity, and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation assessments.
Children will then undergo RIC/Sham conditioning plus training.
Investigators will deliver RIC/sham conditioning via cyclic inflation and deflation of a pressure cuff on the paretic arm using a standard protocol.
Training will involve 5 days (15 trials/day) of bimanual speed stack training for 5 days.
The children will perform the same baseline assessments post-intervention.
Investigators hypothesize that compared to sham conditioning + training, RIC + training will significantly enhance: 1) bimanual skill performance (decrease in movement time (sec) to complete bimanual speed stack task), 2) bimanual coordination and bimanual function (improvement in kinematic variables and increase in the Assisting Hand Assessment scores), 3) cortical excitability in the ipsilesional primary motor cortex (M1) (larger amplitude of motor evoked potentials and lower resting or active motor thresholds), and 4) reduce motor cortex inhibition (reduced short-interval intracortical inhibition and increase in intracortical facilitation in ipsilesional M1).
The long-term goal is to develop effective interventions to improve function of children with UCP.
Outcomes of this project will provide critical ingredients for designing Phase II trials that will determine the effects of RIC combined with different dose of intensive behavioral interventions to improve functional outcomes in children with UCP.
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Anticipated)
46
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Contact
- Name: Swati Surkar, PT, PhD
- Phone Number: 2527446244
- Email: surkars19@ecu.edu
Study Locations
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North Carolina
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Greenville, North Carolina, United States, 27834
- Recruiting
- Dept. of Physical Therapy, East Carolina University
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Contact:
- Swati Surkar
- Phone Number: 402-714-2640
- Email: surkars19@ecu.edu
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Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
8 years to 16 years (Child)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No
Genders Eligible for Study
All
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Children diagnosed with unilateral cerebral palsy (UCP)
- Manual Ability Classification System (MACS) levels I-III
- Ability to complete a stack of 3 cups in 1 minute
- Mainstream in school
Exclusion Criteria:
- Children with other developmental disabilities such as autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, developmental coordination disorders, etc.
- Children with absent active motor threshold
- Children with known cardiorespiratory, vascular, and metabolic disorders
- Children with neoplasm and hydrocephalus
- Children who are currently receiving or received other adjunct therapies such as rTMS and tDCS in the past 6 months
- Children with seizures within last 2 years and on anti-seizure medications
- Children with metal implants and incompatible medical devices
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Triple
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Remote Ischemic Conditioning (RIC)
RIC is achieved via blood pressure cuff inflation to at least 20 mmHg above systolic blood pressure to 250 mmHg on the more involved arm.
RIC involves 5 cycles of 5 minutes blood pressure cuff inflation followed by alternating 5 minutes of cuff deflation and requires 45 minutes.
RIC is performed on visits 1-7.
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Children practices bimanual cup stacking, 15 trials/day for 5 consecutive days
Other Names:
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Sham Comparator: Sham conditioning
Sham conditioning is achieved via blood pressure cuff inflation to 25 mmHg on the more involved arm.
RIC involves 5 cycles of 5 minutes blood pressure cuff inflation followed by alternating 5 minutes of cuff deflation and requires 45 minutes.
RIC is performed on visits 1-7.
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Children practices bimanual cup stacking, 15 trials/day for 5 consecutive days
Other Names:
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Bimanual Learning
Time Frame: Baseline and 1 week
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The time (seconds) to complete each trial of cup stack, which will be averaged across nine trials.
This will be measured at visit 1 (pre-) and visit 7 (post-intervention).
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Baseline and 1 week
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Change in Symmetric performance and tangential velocities
Time Frame: Baseline and 1 week
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Symmetric performance is characterized as a time-lag between the affected and less affected arm during movement onset and task completion.
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Baseline and 1 week
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Change in Resting Motor Threshold (rMT)
Time Frame: Baseline and 1 week
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The rMT is the stimulator output required to produce a motor evoked potential (MEP) of > 50 μV in at least 5/10 trials in FDI muscle.
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Baseline and 1 week
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Change in Active Motor Threshold (aMT)
Time Frame: Baseline and 1 week
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The aMT is the stimulator output required to produce a motor evoked potential (MEP) of > 200 μV in FDI muscle during 30% of MVIC of FDI muscle using a pinch grip.
aMT is a measure of motor cortex excitability.
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Baseline and 1 week
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Assisting Hand Assessment
Time Frame: Baseline and 1 week
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Assisting Hand Assessment assesses bimanual coordination and affected hand function.
A 5-point change from pre- to post-intervention is considered a clinically meaningful improvement.
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Baseline and 1 week
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Change in Hand Trajectory
Time Frame: Baseline and 1 week
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Hand trajectory is defined as the resultant 3D path length between the starting position and task completion.
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Baseline and 1 week
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Change in Temporal coupling (normalized movement overlap time)
Time Frame: Baseline and 1 week
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Normalized movement overlap time is calculated as the percentage of total task completion time that both hands are participating in the stacking sequence during bimanual coordination task
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Baseline and 1 week
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Change in total participation time of each hand
Time Frame: Baseline and 1 week
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Total participation time is calculated as the total amount of time the affected and the less affected hand participate in bimanual coordination task.
A hand will be considered as participating in the task any time the wrist marker tangential velocity remains over 2.0 cm/s for at least 100 ms.
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Baseline and 1 week
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Change in Goal Synchronization
Time Frame: Baseline and 1 week
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Goal synchronization is defined as a time lag between the initiation of the affected compared to the unaffected arm
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Baseline and 1 week
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Change in total task duration
Time Frame: Baseline and 1 week
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Total task duration is defined as the duration from movement onset until the criteria for task completion is reached with both hands.
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Baseline and 1 week
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Change in Stimulus response curve
Time Frame: Baseline and 1 week
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stimulus-response curves will be constructed for the ipsilesional as well as contralesional M1 at intensities of 90%, 100%, 110%, 120%, 130%, 140%, and 150% of rMT (10 stimuli per intensity in random order).
The peak-to-peak amplitude of MEPs and area under the curve of resultant MEPs to these intensities will be calculated.
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Baseline and 1 week
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Change in Motor Evoked Potential (MEP) amplitude
Time Frame: Baseline and 1 week
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The peak-to-peak amplitude of the EMG response from the affected as well as unaffected FDI muscle while stimulating the ipsilesional as well as contralesional motor cortex will be recorded at 100% rMT and averaged across 10 single-pulse trials.
MEP amplitude indicates the strength of motor response to TMS.
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Baseline and 1 week
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Change in Short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI) and intracortical facilitation (ICF)
Time Frame: Baseline and 1 week
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SICI and ICF will be obtained by applying a conditioning stimulus at 80% rMT intensity or AMT intensity followed by a test stimulus at 120% rMT intensity over the hot spot.
The interstimulus interval between the conditioning and test stimulus will be 3 ms for obtaining measures of SICI and 15 ms for obtaining ICF.
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Baseline and 1 week
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Collaborators and Investigators
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Sponsor
Publications and helpful links
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General Publications
- Gidday JM. Cerebral preconditioning and ischaemic tolerance. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2006 Jun;7(6):437-48. doi: 10.1038/nrn1927.
- Kharbanda RK, Nielsen TT, Redington AN. Translation of remote ischaemic preconditioning into clinical practice. Lancet. 2009 Oct 31;374(9700):1557-65. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61421-5.
- Dirnagl U, Becker K, Meisel A. Preconditioning and tolerance against cerebral ischaemia: from experimental strategies to clinical use. Lancet Neurol. 2009 Apr;8(4):398-412. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(09)70054-7.
- Stetler RA, Leak RK, Gan Y, Li P, Zhang F, Hu X, Jing Z, Chen J, Zigmond MJ, Gao Y. Preconditioning provides neuroprotection in models of CNS disease: paradigms and clinical significance. Prog Neurobiol. 2014 Mar;114:58-83. doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2013.11.005. Epub 2014 Jan 2.
- Mattlage AE, Sutter EN, Bland MD, Surkar SM, Gidday JM, Lee JM, Hershey T, Chen L, Lang CE. Dose of remote limb ischemic conditioning for enhancing learning in healthy young adults. Exp Brain Res. 2019 Jun;237(6):1493-1502. doi: 10.1007/s00221-019-05519-w. Epub 2019 Mar 26.
- Sutter EN, Mattlage AE, Bland MD, Cherry-Allen KM, Harrison E, Surkar SM, Gidday JM, Chen L, Hershey T, Lee JM, Lang CE. Remote Limb Ischemic Conditioning and Motor Learning: Evaluation of Factors Influencing Response in Older Adults. Transl Stroke Res. 2019 Aug;10(4):362-371. doi: 10.1007/s12975-018-0653-8. Epub 2018 Aug 7.
- Surkar SM, Bland MD, Mattlage AE, Chen L, Gidday JM, Lee JM, Hershey T, Lang CE. Effects of remote limb ischemic conditioning on muscle strength in healthy young adults: A randomized controlled trial. PLoS One. 2020 Feb 4;15(2):e0227263. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227263. eCollection 2020.
Study record dates
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Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
November 7, 2022
Primary Completion (Anticipated)
June 30, 2024
Study Completion (Anticipated)
August 31, 2024
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
March 6, 2023
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
March 18, 2023
First Posted (Actual)
March 20, 2023
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
March 22, 2023
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
March 19, 2023
Last Verified
March 1, 2023
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- MS4_UMCIRB 21-001913
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
UNDECIDED
IPD Plan Description
Data will be shared on NIH figshare network and will be made available on request.
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
No
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