Usability Study of a Neuropsychological Intervention Program Based on Virtual Reality in Adults With Parkinson's Disease

Corporación de Rehabilitación Club de Leones Cruz del Sur

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parkinson Disease

Treatments: Device: Intervention with virtual reality

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05403788

CorporacionRCLCS0007

Details and patient eligibility

About

Nowadays, several strategies for treating neuropsychologic function loss in Parkinson disease (PD) have been proposed, such as physical activity performance and developing games to exercise the mind. However, few studies illustrate the incidence of these therapies in neuronal activity. This work aims to study the feasibility of a virtual reality-based program oriented to the cognitive functions' rehabilitation of PD patients. For this, the study was divided in intervention with the program, acquisition of signals, data processing and results analysis.

The study highlights implementing new technologies to rehabilitate people with neurodegenerative diseases.

Full description

Nowadays, several strategies for treating neuropsychologic function loss in Parkinson disease (PD) have been proposed, such as physical activity performance and developing games to exercise the mind. However, few studies illustrate the incidence of these therapies in neuronal activity. This work aims to study the feasibility of a virtual reality-based program oriented to the cognitive functions' rehabilitation of PD patients. For this, the study was divided in intervention with the program, acquisition of signals, data processing and results analysis. The alpha and beta bands power behaviour were determined by evaluating the electroencephalography (EEG) signals obtained during the execution of control tests and games of the "Hand Physics Lab" Software, from which five games related to attention, planning, sequencing, concentration, and coordination, were taken.

The study highlights implementing new technologies to rehabilitate people with neurodegenerative diseases.

Enrollment: 9 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parkinson Disease (Neurologist diagnosed)
• Both gender
• Informed consent accepted
• Adults
• Stage 2 and 3 in the Hoehn Yahr scale

Exclusion criteria

• Mental diseases
• Migraines
• Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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9 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention with virtual reality

Experimental group

Description:

Each subject will receive a single session of exercises with the OCULUS QUEST2 (OCULUS VR, USA) and a hand tracking software (Hand Physics Lab, Holonautic, Switzerland). Brain function monitoring will be made by an EEG system ENOBIO 20 (Neuro-electrics, Spain) positioned over subject head. Intervention consisted of exercises with upper limbs and visual feedback. These activities were projected stereoscopically on VR googles.

Treatment:

Device: Intervention with virtual reality