Clinical Decision-Making and Virtual Reality Exercise

National Taiwan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Degenerative Disc Disease; Degenerative Spondylolisthesis; Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis; Degenerative Intervertebral Discs

Treatments: Other: VR skateboarding training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05375201

202003149RINC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Degenerative lumbar spine disease (DLSD) is common in elderly individuals and can result in pain, muscle weakness, and paresthesia. Numerous studies have reported that patients with DLSD usually have postural balance instability, which may affect the patient's gait, functional activities, and quality of life. The investigators propose to achieve the following aims: (1) to develop a clinical balance diagnostic tool to identify patients with DLSD who may require lumbar surgery (2) to investigate the effects of virtual reality skateboard exercise training on gait and balance in patients with DLSD, as well as to compare them with asymptomatic participants.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 1. able to stand and walk for 5 minutes independently
• 2. aged between 50 and 80 years
• 3. received a diagnosis of DLSD based on imaging

Exclusion criteria

• 1. previous lumbar surgery
• 2. neurological disorder such as stroke or spinal cord injury
• 3. metabolic disease such as diabetes mellitus
• 4. vestibular disease such as Meniere's disease.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 1 patient group

VR skateboarding training

Experimental group

Description:

specific rehabilitation exercise for improving postural balance

Treatment:

Other: VR skateboarding training