NCT02831036

The Impact of Physical Exercise on Navigation Performance in Soldier

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Sheba Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

20 healthy man, 10 in trial group and 10 in control group (randomly divided) will participate in the experiment on order to evaluate if improvement in physical fitness influences spatial learning in humans.

Detailed description

subjects in both groups will perform 4 sets of VO2max test and spatial orientation test with a month between them (total 3 month). in addition, subjects in trial group will follow a training program throughout the trial (running on treadmill 3 times a week), suited according to their result in the first VO2max test. in each set VO2max test will be perform before spatial orientation test , in order to evaluated the subject's aerobic fitness. the spatial orientation test is composed of 5 following days in which the subject has 3 attempts to arrive to a destination in xbox one controller using a virtual glasses (Oculus Rift DK2). each attempt duration is 2 min.

Conditions

• Spatial Learning

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	training program	subjects in the trial group will follow a training program which includes 3 times a week running on a treadmill.
OTHER	VO2max test	each subject will perform 4 times VO2max test according to BRUCE protocol in order to evaluate his aerobic fitness.
OTHER	spatial orientation test	each subject will undergo 4 spatial orientation tests during the trial (month between 2 tests), each test is composed of 5 following days in which the subject will wear virtual reality glasses (Oculus Rift DK2) and attempt to arrive different destinations in a virtual maze tasks (using xbox one controller). each day will be given 3 attempts, the duration of each attempt is 2 min.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-10-01
• Primary completion: 2017-10-01
• Completion: 2018-04-01
• First posted: 2016-07-13
• Last updated: 2016-07-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel