Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01883830
Xbox in the Rehabilitation of Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury
"Feasibility and Efficacy of Virtual Reality With Xbox Kinect in the Rehabilitation of Cronic Traumatic Brain Injuries: a Randomized Controlled Trial".
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 21 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University Hospital of Ferrara · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 70 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Traumatic brain injury is an extremely common disease, it counts 50.000 deaths and 235.000 hospitalizations every year. Functional consequences of an acquired brain injury have a considerable impact on quality of lives of patients and care-givers with direct effects on balance, mobility and on psycho-social functions. Attention deficits are one of the most frequent and disabling consequences of severe brain injury. Within the wide spectrum of attentive problems, patients with traumatic brain injury frequently have shown difficulties in divided attention. Patients, care-givers and professionals frequently refer difficulties also in selective attention and vigilance as consequence of the trauma. It has been shown how these difficulties are tightly related with the missed return to work after two years from the injury. The hypothesis of this study is to investigate the feasibility of a rehabilitative protocol on gaming using the console Xbox and its efficacy in improving balance, mobility, risk of falling, attentive functions (selective and divided attention) in subjects which have had a traumatic brain injury at least 12 months before.
Detailed description
Inclusion Criteria: Chronic traumatic brain injury (\>12 months) Age\>18, \<70 years old Presence of a moderate balance deficit identified by CB\&M with a score \< 65 or presence of a selective attention and shifting attention deficit identified by the TEA computerized battery (Tau\<37).
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DEVICE | gaming therapy (Xbox) | |
| DEVICE | Dynamic balance platform (Biodex) |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2013-04-01
- Primary completion
- 2016-05-01
- Completion
- 2016-05-01
- First posted
- 2013-06-21
- Last updated
- 2017-02-03
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Italy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01883830. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.