The Impact of Physical Exercise on Navigation Performance in Soldier

Sheba Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Spatial Learning

Treatments: Other: training program; Other: spatial orientation test; Other: VO2max test

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02831036

SHEBA-16-3321-HS-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

20 healthy man, 10 in trial group and 10 in control group (randomly divided) will participate in the experiment on order to evaluate if improvement in physical fitness influences spatial learning in humans.

Full description

subjects in both groups will perform 4 sets of VO2max test and spatial orientation test with a month between them (total 3 month).

in addition, subjects in trial group will follow a training program throughout the trial (running on treadmill 3 times a week), suited according to their result in the first VO2max test.

in each set VO2max test will be perform before spatial orientation test , in order to evaluated the subject's aerobic fitness. the spatial orientation test is composed of 5 following days in which the subject has 3 attempts to arrive to a destination in xbox one controller using a virtual glasses (Oculus Rift DK2). each attempt duration is 2 min.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• civilian healthy man, aged 18-30
• without any neurological or psychiatric disorder
• not wearing eyeglasses

Exclusion criteria

• athletes or trained man (for both groups)

Trial design

20 participants in 2 patient groups

trial group

Experimental group

Description:

subjects in trial group will be following the experimental protocol (VO2max tests and spatial orientation tests) while performing a training program during the trial (3 months).

Treatment:

Other: VO2max test

Other: spatial orientation test

Other: training program

control group

Other group

Description:

following the experimental protocol (VO2max tests and spatial orientation tests)without performing additional exercise.

Treatment:

Other: VO2max test

Other: spatial orientation test