Masters Applied Projects

Project 4

Effects of Remote Data Collection on Functional Task-Specific Motor Training in Older Adult Stroke Patients

Student: Shae Diaz

Mentors: Dr. Sydney Schaefer – SBHSE
Dr. Claire Honeycutt – SBHSE
Dr. Corianne Rogalsky - CHS

YouTube Link: View the video link below before joining the zoom meeting

Zoom link: https://asu.zoom.us/j/81160453864

Time: 10am – noon

Abstract

The prevalence of a stroke is roughly 3% of the adult population in the United States and around 795,000 people have a stroke per year. Therefore, strokes are an extremely prevalent occurrence that can cause individuals to suffer from neurological deficits. These deficits can occur in several areas of cognition and research has shown that one of the most commonly affected neural systems following a stroke is the motor system. This can affect a person’s ability to perform everyday tasks such as feeding and dressing oneself, which is an important task performed on a daily basis. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Sydney Schaefer’s Motor Rehabilitation and Learning (MRL) lab was working on acquisition and generalization of task-specific motor learning in older adults via in-person visits to research if practicing one motor task will improve performance in that task and translate to other motor tasks in older adults (≥50 years). Given the ongoing pandemic and need for social distancing, the team has adapted their study’s protocol to incorporate remote data collection of the motor learning tasks rather than in-person visits. The objectives of the applied project are to analyze the feasibility of remote data collection during motor training visits, determine the differences in remote versus in-person data collection of motor visits, identify the implications for future research work, and address potential advantages and disadvantages to remote data collection.