NCT03744884

Movement Characterization in Spastic/Dystonic Cerebral Palsy Using Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality

Movement Impairment Characterization and Rehabilitation for Spastic/Dystonic Cerebral Palsy Using Robotic Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 68 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This game-like intervention using virtual reality will provide an objective and quantitative characterization of dystonia and spasticity presentations in cerebral palsy, even if combined, through the process of motor learning. This intervention could have a therapeutic benefit in the rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy.

Detailed description

Cerebral palsy is the most common developmental motor disorder in children. Individuals with cerebral palsy demonstrate abnormal muscle tone and motor control. Within the population of children with cerebral palsy, between 4% and 17% present dystonic symptoms and between 80% to 95% of cases present spasticity. In many cases spasticity and dystonia are present in the same child and accurate diagnosis may be challenging. This study consists of a randomized controlled trial that uses a virtual reality game-based intervention incorporating fully-automated robotic haptic feedback to aid the the objective, quantitative diagnosis of spasticity and dystonia u=in CP. The study consists of face-to-face assessments of movement before, after, and one-month following the completion of the six-session game-based intervention. Children with spastic/dystonic cerebral palsy and typically developing children between the ages of 7 and 17 will be recruited for this study. The investigators anticipate to recruit a total of 68 participants, 34 with cerebral palsy and 34 typically developing. Both groups of children will be randomly allocated into an intervention or control group using a blocked randomization method. Movement outcomes will be examined for changes in quantitative and clinical measures in children with spastic/dystonic cerebral palsy and typically developing children to aid on the classification of movement disorders. Pair t-tests will be conducted on movement outcomes for both groups of children independently. Positive and negative results will be reported and addressed.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy, Mixed
• Cerebral Palsy, Spastic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Force efforts with haptic feedback in virtual reality.	A virtual reality game-based intervention incorporating fully-automated robotic haptic feedback. The study consists of face-to-face assessments of movement before, after, and one-month following the completion of the six-session game-based intervention. Children with spastic/dystonic cerebral palsy between the ages of 7 and 17 will be recruited for this study along with a group of typically developing children in the same age range. Both groups of children will be randomly allocated into an intervention or control group using a blocked randomization method.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-12-01
• Primary completion: 2021-01-01
• Completion: 2021-01-01
• First posted: 2018-11-16
• Last updated: 2020-01-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States