Interactive Motor Imagery in Virtual Reality

University of Zurich (UZH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke; Spinal Cord Injury

Treatments: Device: iCTuS-L

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02149186

EK-24 2009/PB_2016-00545

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project will build and test the first rehabilitation system employing virtual reality (VR)-based observation, motor imagery and execution to treat lower-limb neuropathic pain and motor dysfunction in participants with an incomplete spinal cord injury or another neurological disorder, eg. stroke: iCTuS-L (Interactive Computer-based Therapy System for legs). Patients using the system will control virtual representations of their legs to engage in entertaining gaming interactions.

Enrollment: 79 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 16 and 80
• clinically incomplete spinal cord injury (time since injury: chronic > 1 year; acute < 3 months)
• ASI C or D
• neuropathic pain and/or motor deficits
• diagnosed neurological disorder, eg. stroke

Exclusion criteria

• any disease limiting training
• epilepsy
• major depression or psychosis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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79 participants in 1 patient group

Rehabilitation

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: iCTuS-L