Electric hand device shows promise for stroke patients

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * The patient must have given free and informed consent and signed the consent; * The patient must be an affiliate or a beneficiary of a health insurance plan; * The patient is hospitalized as part of routine care and available for at least 3 consecutive days of follow-up during hospitalization; * Motor deficiency of the upper limb due to a hemorrhagic or ischemic stroke; * Stroke more than one months old; * Inability to perform an active extension of the long fingers (opening of the hand) to voluntarily seize an empty glass with a palmar grip (grasping task in the ARAT scale), while the subject can hold the previously placed glass passively in the hand; and / or * Inability to perform an active thumb extension to voluntarily grasp the handle of a tablespoon (flat, like a key) with a pulpo-lateral thumb-index or key-grip (grasping task in the Wolf Motor Function Scale Test), while the subject can hold the spoon previously placed passively between thumb and index; * Ability to sit on a chair for at least 2 hours. Exclusion Criteria: * The subject participates in another interventional study; * The subject is in an exclusion period determined by a previous study; * The subject is under the protection of justice, guardianship or curatorship; * The subject refuses to sign or give consent; * It is not possible to give the subject enlightened information. * The patient is pregnant, parturient, or breastfeeding; * Patient with pacemaker; * Unstable epilepsy; * Unstable cardiovascular pathology (coronary heart disease, major hypertension, heart failure); * Dermatological problems counter-indicating the application of surface electrodes; * Musculotendinous retractions or joint stiffness of the fingers and wrist preventing passive opening of the hand sufficient to perform the functional tasks evaluated; * Active elbow extension limited to not reaching the ipsilateral knee, the subject sitting (limitation of the approach); * Upper limb pain limiting movements; * Major sensory disorders corresponding to a score of the Modified Erasmus Nottingham Sensory Assessment English version of the upper limb \<10/44; * Severe aphasia with aphasia severity scale of the Boston Diagnostic Severity Aphasia Examination \<= 3, indicating that there may be a clear decrease in verbal fluency or ease and speed of understanding, with no significant limitation expression or communication; * Unilateral spatial negligence highlighted with the bell test if the difference between omissions in the left and right fields is greater than or equal to 6; * Common extensor digitorum muscle and / or extensor thumb muscle non-stimulable with the neuroprosthesis.