NCT02644213

Evaluation of Physical and Cognitive Performance After Simulated Road March Combines Physical and Cognitive Load Using a Virtual Reality Environment

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Sheba Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of the research is to evaluate the influence of physical and cognitive load as pre-mission activity on the soldier's physical and cognitive performance, in compare to physical load alone. In order to do so, 12 healthy subjects will perform stimulated road march using a virtual reality environment combined with cognitive load and without, and their physical and cognitive performance will be evaluated by tests before and after.

Detailed description

12 young, healthy civilian volunteers will participate in this study. After reading and signing an informed consent form, all subjects will undergo medical examination which includes ECG, anthropometric measurements and Vo2max test. Afterwards, the subjects will perform randomly 3 experimental days, each consist of physical and cognitive performance evaluation before and after simulated road march using a virtual reality environment; once without additional load, once combining cognitive load during the road march, and once without physical load (without march, waiting between evaluations) as control. The experiment will take place in a dome room, and the systems being used are: 1. CAREN high (Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment) which screens virtual scene in the dome. 2. MOTEK (Motek Medical©, the Netherlands) which is a two track treadmill (for each leg) placed on a rotatable platform. cognitive tasks for example: navigation, identification and remembering cars/aircraft. Physical and cognitive performance will be evaluated at each experimental day, before and after performing the protocol. at the end of the march, cognitive performance will be evaluated by validated tests on laptop (SYNWIN activity research services) and executive function evaluation based on Trail Making Test (TMT), afterwards, Physical performance will be evaluated by HRV and time to exhaustion test (30 min after the end of cognitive tests).

Conditions

• Physical Examination

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	protocol of using CAREN and MOTEK systems	The subjects will perform randomly 3 experimental days (at least weak between one to another): * simulated road march using a virtual reality environment without additional load * simulated road march using a virtual reality environment which combines cognitive load during the road march. Cognitive tasks for example: navigation, identification and remembering cars/aircraft. * without physical or cognitive load (without march, waiting between performance evaluations) as control.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2017-01-01
• Completion: 2017-01-01
• First posted: 2015-12-31
• Last updated: 2015-12-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel