Virtual Reality Rehabilitation in Patients With Acquired Brain Injury

San Donato Group (GSD)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Acquired Brain Injury

Treatments: Other: Virtual Reality rehabilitation group; Other: Control group rehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03402360

VR-ABI

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of motor and cognitive virtual environment rehabilitation on upper limb function in sub-acute patients after an acquired brain injury.

Enrollment: 90 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Acquired Brain Injury within 1 month before the recruitment;
• Score between 0 and 3 at the Motor Arm subscore of the Italian version of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (it-NIHSS);
• Score between 9 and 15 at the Glasgow Coma Scale for the traumatic brain injury Acquired Brain Injury.

Exclusion criteria

• Denial of informed consent;
• Visual deficits that interfere with the virtual reality rehabilitation;
• Score under 18 at the Mini Mental State Examination;
• Severe orthopedic deficit;
• Patients with pace maker;
• Patients with contraindication to undergo magnetic resonance;
• Pregnant women.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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90 participants in 2 patient groups

Virtual Reality rehabilitation group

Experimental group

Description:

The Virtual Reality group will perform upper extremity motor rehabilitation and neurocognitive rehabilitation based on virtual reality training.

Treatment:

Other: Virtual Reality rehabilitation group

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The Control group will perform the same motor and neurocognitive rehabilitation but with the virtual reality turned off.

Treatment:

Other: Control group rehabilitation