NCT03928405

Effect of Virtual Reality on Balance and Gait Speed With Alzheimer's Dementia

The Effect of Virtual Reality Application on Balance and Gait Speed in Individuals With Alzheimer's Dementia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kırıkkale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of study is to investigate the effect of virtual reality application on balance and gait speed in individuals with Alzheimer's Dementia.

Detailed description

The aim of study is to investigate the effect of virtual reality application on balance and gait speed in individuals with Alzheimer's Dementia. The study consisted of 32 subjects, which were diagnosed as mild or moderate AD by the neurologist. The balance, fall risks and gait speed were assessed. Training group was trained with games selected from different categories such as balance and aerobic exercises with Nintendo Wii virtual reality device for 6 weeks, 1 session 30 min, 2 times a week.

Conditions

• Alzheimer's Dementia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Exercises with Nintendo Wii virtual reality device	In the first session, each Nintendo Wii components were introduced to each individual. The selected games and how they were played were taught to each individual by the physiotherapist and practically taught. The games were played with the help of physiotherapists in the first session so that individuals could transfer the correct weight on the Nintendo Wii balance board and to use the game console's control. The patient was supported with verbal and physical feedback when the patient played incorrectly during the games in the next sessions. Games that require serious balance and coordination were considered as a difficult activity for the patient and were not used in this study. The difficulty of the games was set to the simplest level for each patient. As the patients were successful the games' difficulty level was upgraded. The difficulty of the games has been increased according to the classification determined by the Nintendo Wii device.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-01
• Primary completion: 2018-04-30
• Completion: 2018-06-06
• First posted: 2019-04-26
• Last updated: 2019-04-26

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)