NCT04333758

Outpatient and Home Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics Using Jintronix Virtual Reality Telerehabilitation System

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 35 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tan Tock Seng Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The use of virtual reality technology in a telerehabilitation service is not well established in Singapore. This feasibility trial aims to evaluate the benefits of using Jintronix to deliver a clinic-to-home, caregiver-supervised and individualised exercise telerehabilitation program to complement outpatient services and improve clinical outcomes for post-stroke users.

Detailed description

With the emphasis on improving population health, reducing the need for hospital care, and promoting self-management, it will be beneficial to make good use of current available technologies to complement centre-based therapy with cost effectiveness and efficiency. One mode of such care delivery to a patient's home is through a telerehabilitation system that enables remote monitoring of patients' participation and performance in individualised home exercises. In addition, timely review and adjustments in the home programs to cater to progress or changes in patients' performance can be carried out by therapists remotely. In the recent years, there has been an increased utilisation of virtual reality applications in physical rehabilitation for specific training objectives, such as, movement retraining, balance control and strength training. Virtual reality exercises when prescribed with defined training objectives and duration can potentially be valuable to increase patients' training intensity in the comfort of their own homes. The majority of patients receiving outpatient and home based rehabilitation at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) Rehabilitation Centre (RC) and Centre for Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics (CART) are patients who have had a stroke. Hence this group of outpatients that are at least 3 months post-stroke will be recruited for this trial. It is hypothesized that they will benefit from increased intensity of upper limb, balance and/or gait rehabilitation with Jintronix telerehabilitation system that facilitates them to further exercise at home and not just at the clinic. The study is thus designed to evaluate the feasibility of a novel telerehabilitation service based on the Jintronix Virtual Reality Platform to complement existing outpatient therapy services of TTSH RC (including its outpatient service arm at CART).

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Jintronix Virtual Reality Telerehabilitation System	System consists of an internet-based rehabilitation software linked to a Microsoft Kinect camera for motion detection. Study team therapist prescribed a list of guided exercises and therapeutic activities (games) for training of whole body, lower and upper extremities. These can be done in sitting or standing, depending on individual participant's capacity. Telemonitoring is done by study team therapist during each of the training day (Mondays-Fridays) of the home-based training phase. Training performance results are reviewed and training games are adjusted or changed to optimise home training.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-05
• Primary completion: 2018-11-14
• Completion: 2018-11-14
• First posted: 2020-04-03
• Last updated: 2024-06-18
• Results posted: 2024-06-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Singapore

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study