NCT03386968

Virtual Reality and Active Video Games to Improve Balance in Children With Brain Injury

Use of Low-Cost Virtual Reality and Active Video Games to Improve Balance and Perceptual Skills in Children With Cerebral Palsy and Brain Injury

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 4 (actual)
• Sponsor: Blythedale Children's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this pilot feasibility study is to assess the feasibility of using the Playstation Xbox 360 and Rutgers V-step via a Kinect Sensor with active video game software as a part of a physical therapy intervention to improve obstacle negotiation, gait speed, and stair negotiation in ambulatory children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) hemiparesis or spastic diplegia, or non-progressive brain injury (BI). Children will be assessed using perceptual, balance, functional and gait assessments.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy
• Acquired Brain Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Active video gaming	Children will visit Blythedale for 8 sessions, one 45-session visit per week, in place of one of the child's typical physical therapy sessions. During each session, children will play a video game on the X-Box Kinect system, using the games "Kinect Adventures" and "Kinect Sports". The child will first play a "Kinect Adventures" game, which requires ambulating, ducking, and dodging one's way through an obstacle course.
BEHAVIORAL	Usual care physical therapy	Children will attend their usual care physical therapy appointments at Blythedale.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-12-07
• Primary completion: 2022-01-06
• Completion: 2022-01-06
• First posted: 2017-12-29
• Last updated: 2022-01-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States