Amputee Gait Training Using Virtual Reality and Real-Time Feedback (VRGAIT)

Brooke Army Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Abnormal Gait Kinematics

Treatments: Other: Gait Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT01225120

C.2007.072t

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this repeated measures design gait training study is to develop and quantitatively assess the effectiveness of a virtual reality training environment using real-time feedback for modification of pelvic motion during gait.

Enrollment: 66 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Unilateral traumatic trans-tibial or transfemoral amputation
• Independent ambulation without an assistive device for a minimum of three months
• Ability to ambulate continuously for a minimum of 15 minutes
• Trans-femoral participants must use an ischial containment socket
• VAS Pain scores on the involved side of less than 4/10
• Sagittal plane ankle, knee and hip strength of 4 or greater on the uninvolved side as determined by manual muscle test.

Exclusion criteria

• Blindness
• TBI-Glascow Coma Scale score of 12 or lower at the time of injury
• Cardiac or pulmonary problems limiting physical activity
• PTSD or other psychological condition with symptoms that would be exacerbated by participation in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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66 participants in 1 patient group

Gait Training

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Gait Training