EMPATIA@Lecco- Balance Rehabilitation of Autistic Children With Virtual rEality (BRAVE)

IRCCS Eugenio Medea

Status: Completed

Conditions: Autism Spectrum Disorder

Treatments: Device: exergames with GRAIL virtual immersive reality environment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04276571

GIP-679

Details and patient eligibility

About

The general objective of this project is to investigate the possible efficacy of a training based on proprioceptive and visual feedback carried out with the GRAIL (Motekforce Link) virtual reality environment on postural control and balance skills of school-aged children with clinical diagnosis of ASD.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 14 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• a clinical diagnosis of ASD
• All participants were required to have estimated FSIQ of 80 or above

Exclusion criteria

• using any stimulant or non-stimulant medication that affects the central nervous system
• having an identified genetic disorder
• having vision or hearing problems
• suffering from chronic or acute medical illness
• presence of epilepsy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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22 participants in 2 patient groups

GRAIL

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: exergames with GRAIL virtual immersive reality environment

No treatment

No Intervention group