A Serious Game to Rehabilitate Gaze Stability in Children with Vestibular Deficit (KG-REHAB)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status

Completed

Conditions

Vestibular Disorder

Treatments

Device: Training with Serious game

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04353115

69HCL19_0692

Details and patient eligibility

About

Since the early 2000s, vestibular rehabilitation has been proposed as a therapeutic tool to improve the balancing function and the various motor skills in children, in particular in children with hearing loss suffering from concomitant vestibular deficit. It has been demonstrated in adults with vestibular deficit that the fact of adding to the classic exercises on the control of balance per se and habituation, specific exercises of adaptation and substitution of the vestibulo-ocular reflex brought therapeutic benefit. These exercises, which are started in the presence of the physiotherapist and then continued by the patient himself at his home, aim to improve the stabilization of the gaze during head movements. In pediatrics, however, performing them is more difficult than conventional exercises, since their immediate interest is not well understood by the child, who may be reluctant to perform them. The present project aims to enrich the therapeutic offer by a pediatric rehabilitation method of eye stabilization sufficiently playful to win adherence to treatment, including in the absence of the physiotherapist when the child is at home.

Enrollment

12 patients

Sex

All

Ages

4 to 13 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Diagnosed with a vestibular disorder by the batteries of tests used in clinical routine.
Supported by the multidisciplinary team of the Audiology and Otoneurological Exploration Department at the HFME
Patient or parents able to understand the ins and outs of the study
No opposition from children and parents

Exclusion criteria