Effects of Virtual Reality on Cerebral Palsy

Hacettepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cerebral Palsy

Treatments: Other: Virtual Reality with Kinect; Other: Conventional Occupational Therapy (COT)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04768374

61351342/ 2020- 214

Details and patient eligibility

About

Virtual reality (VR), is one of the most popular approaches to Cerebral Palsy (CP) rehabilitation and has been used in rehabilitation field for 30 years. VR is provided via a computer or a game console, and players interact with real-like objects . Using a VR interface as a rehabilitation tool increases the fun received by the client which, in turn, increases the participation of the client to the rehabilitation sessions.

This is a study that focused on long-term effects of Virtual reality (VR) intervention on motor skills and activities of daily living (ADL) independence of children with CP.

Enrollment: 83 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• had to be 7 to 12 years-old,
• to be diagnosed with CP,
• to get 1 or 2 from Gross Motor Functioning Classification System,
• to get a score of 1 to 3 from Manual Ability Classification System,
• to score at least 23 from Mini Mental State Examination - children edition,
• to be able to follow verbal instructions, and
• to have the

Exclusion criteria

• having any surgical operation and/or botulinum toxin injection in last 6 months,
• having any visual and hearing diseases that may affect using VR, and
• participating in any other rehabilitation programs (such as physiotherapy, speech therapy, psychotherapy etc.),
• having ataxic and/or dyskinetic symptoms.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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83 participants in 2 patient groups

VR group

Experimental group

Description:

Enrolled into 12 week VR intervention with Microsoft Kinect (twice a week, for 45 minutes) and conventional occupational therapy.

Treatment:

Other: Conventional Occupational Therapy (COT)

Other: Virtual Reality with Kinect

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Control group only received conventional occupational therapy for 12 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Conventional Occupational Therapy (COT)