NCT03501342

Effects of Immersive Virtual Reality on Balance, Mobility, and Fatigue in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 39 (actual)
• Sponsor: Gazi University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Gait disorder, imbalance, and fatigue are the most frequently reported complaints in Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a chronic neurodegenerative disease. The first symptoms in patients with MS are emerging in the age range 20-50 and these patients need long-term rehabilitation. The virtual reality applications developed for these problems which affect the quality of life negatively and cause disability in the following periods may be a good alternative for conventional rehabilitation applications. In this long-term where motivation is important, virtual reality applications in different environments provide patients with the opportunity to do many different tasks amused. In recent years, the vividness has been increased by the 3D virtual reality headsets. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of immersive virtual reality on the balance, mobility, and fatigue in patients with MS.

Detailed description

The study was designed as a prospective, randomized controlled study. The patients will be randomly assigned to three groups, the "immersive virtual reality (IVR)" group, the "dynamic balance training (DBT)" group and the control group. The trainings will be twice a week for 8 weeks. In the IVR group, firstly 30 minutes of Pilates training, 10 minutes of rest and then 20 minutes of virtual reality will be applied. In the DBT group, 20 minutes of dynamic balance exercises will be applied after Pilates training. In dynamic balance training, exercises will consist of similar movements required by virtual reality games. The control group will be taught relaxation exercises and will be asked to perform the exercises 2 times for 8 weeks at home. Statistical analyses will be performed using the SPSS software version 15 (SPSS Inc. Chicago, IL, USA). The pre-training and post-training measurements of groups will be compared with the Wilcoxon Test. The significance level was set at p\< 0.05.

Conditions

• Multiple Sclerosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Virtual reality group	Immersive virtual reality training protocol consisted of "Football" and "Guillotine" games.
OTHER	Dynamic Balance Training	Dynamic balance training protocol consisted of holding the ball and running away from the ball with a physiotherapist.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-09
• Primary completion: 2018-09-01
• Completion: 2018-09-01
• First posted: 2018-04-18
• Last updated: 2018-10-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)