NCT00889824

Head-Mounted Vibrotactile Prosthesis for Patients With Chronic Postural Instability

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 5 (actual)
• Sponsor: Washington University School of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this project is to provide individuals that have a balance deficit with a device that will give them signals that they can feel (vibrations) in order to help them maintain a correct sense of balance and perception of place in the environment.

Detailed description

This proposal addresses a National Institute on Deafness and Other communication Disorders (NIDCD) research topic that emphasizes the "development of assistive devices for balance disorders". The proposed work will evaluate the assistive efficacy of such a balance prosthesis in a population of chronic imbalance patients spanning a wide range of disease etiologies.

Conditions

• Dizziness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	balance prosthesis	vibrotactile stimulation

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-02-01
• Primary completion: 2012-06-01
• Completion: 2012-06-01
• First posted: 2009-04-29
• Last updated: 2016-02-15
• Results posted: 2016-02-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States