The Effects of Video Games in Stroke

Universidad de Burgos

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke; Hemiplegia

Treatments: Device: rehabilitation video game; Device: Commercial video game.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03896542

CEIC 1559

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aims: To establish whether the effectiveness of conventional treatment is increased when it is complemented with video-based therapy, whether specific rehabilitation or commercial after subacute stroke.

Design: Randomized clinical trial with pre / post-test and follow-up evaluation, assessor blinded study.

Methodology: Three different groups: conventional treatment, conventional treatment and commercial videogame, or conventional treatment and specific rehabilitation videogame. The three groups completed 12 sessions.

Enrollment: 45 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with stroke
• Hemiplegia on the non-dominant side
• More than 1 month since the stroke
• Score 3 in the shoulder and 2 in the elbow in the modified Medical Research Council scale
• No auditory alterations
• No visual disturbances
• Mini Mental Scale greater than or equal to 24

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with unstable blood pressure or angina.
• History of seizures.
• Do not use video games

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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45 participants in 3 patient groups

Commercial video game

Experimental group

Description:

the group commercial video game received 30 minutes of conventional therapy plus 30 minutes of rehab training using Xbox Kinect-based games.

Treatment:

Device: Commercial video game.

Rehabilitation video game

Experimental group

Description:

the group rehabilitation video game received 30 minutes of conventional therapy plus 30 minutes of rehab games.

Treatment:

Device: rehabilitation video game

The control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group received 30 minutes of conventional therapy