Rehabilitation Gaming System for Cerebral Palsy

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cerebral Palsy; Movement Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Conventional Therapy; Behavioral: VR-based motor training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02938754

VR for Cerebral Palsy

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study the investigators evaluate the effectivity of Virtual Reality-based rehabilitation protocols for preventing motor deterioration in patients with cerebral palsy.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children and Adult patients between 12- 50 years old diagnosed with CP according to Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS). Level of disability between I and IV.
• Ashworth modified clinical scale < 3 (Ashworth, 1964, Bohannon Bohannon and Smith, 1987).

Exclusion criteria

• Severe visual impairment.
• Severe cognitive impairment such as mental retardation which impedes the understanding of the task.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

---

14 participants in 2 patient groups

VR-based motor training

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will perform 3 different training protocols in Virtual Reality that imply performing tasks of vertical and planar reaching and hitting spheres, or hockey pucks, spaced at different time, speed and color.

Treatment:

Behavioral: VR-based motor training

Conventional Therapy

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects will perform conventional rehabilitation tasks for the upper-extremities that imply vertical and planar reaching movements.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Conventional Therapy