NCT00993889

Virtual Reality Analgesia During Pediatric Physical Therapy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 18 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) · NIH
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

We would like to determine whether Virtual Reality (VR) analgesia continues to be effective for reducing pain when administered for a clinically relevant treatment duration over multiple, repeated exposures (i.e., up to ten sessions of physical therapy per patient).

Detailed description

This study is done in a hospital for inpatients pediatrics. By randomization some subjects will immersive Virtual Reality (VR) during a painful procedure on daily basis up to 10 days to see whether this will reduce the pain and anxiety.

Conditions

• Burn

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	VR during Physical Therapy	Virtual Reality will be performed during a painful physical therapy procedure.
BEHAVIORAL	VR Background Pain	Virtual Reality is used at anytime during the day for the background pain, not during physical therapy.
BEHAVIORAL	NO VR	The subject will receive the usual standard treatment. At the end of the study, before being discharged from the hospital, the subject can experience the VR, not during a procedure.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-05-01
• Primary completion: 2017-04-01
• Completion: 2017-04-01
• First posted: 2009-10-14
• Last updated: 2019-03-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States