Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02234531
Comparison Study of 'Virtual Teacher' Support for Rehabilitation After Stroke.
Assessment of a Virtual Teacher Feedback for the Recovery of Upper Limb After Stroke.
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 124 (actual)
- Sponsor
- IRCCS San Camillo, Venezia, Italy · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The aim of the project is to assess whether the continuous visualization of on-line teacher in virtual reality (VR) is effective for the improvement of upper limb motor function, in stroke patients.
Detailed description
A single-blind randomized controlled trial (RCT) will be carried out to compare the effects of reinforced feedback in virtual environment (RFVE) treatment with continuous displaying of a virtual teacher (EVER TEACHER group) with RFVE without the presence of a virtual teacher (NEVER TEACHER group).
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DEVICE | EVER TEACHER | The treatment will be performed in a darkened room, to avoid distraction provided by environmental stimuli. The patients will be seat on a standard chair in front of a wall screen handling a sensorized object with plegic hand. In case of grasping deficits the hand's surface will be used as end effector (i.e. sensorized glove worn by the patient). During the treatment a specific feedback called "virtual teacher" will be displayed. The Reinforced Feedback in Virtual Environment (RFVE) approach consists of performing different motor tasks moving the end effector simultaneously displayed in the virtual scenario. The Virtual Reality Rehabilitation System (VRRS®. Khymeia Group, Noventa Padovana. Italy) will be used as device to provide the artificial environment. |
| DEVICE | NEVER TEACHER | The patients allocated to NEVER TEACHER group, will be treated using the VRRS and the proceedings will be the same as described for experimental group. In this group, the patient will move the real object (e.g. ball) following the trajectory of the corresponding virtual object displayed on the wall screen in accordance with the requested virtual task and without the 'virtual teacher' support. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2013-04-01
- Primary completion
- 2021-06-01
- Completion
- 2021-06-01
- First posted
- 2014-09-09
- Last updated
- 2022-06-10
Locations
2 sites across 1 country: Italy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02234531. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.