NCT05080894

Virtual Reality Rehabilitation for Patients With Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Early Domestic Rehabilitation Using Virtual Reality for Patients With Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 44 (actual)
• Sponsor: Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to ascertain whether 4 weeks of daily virtual-reality-based rehabilitation at home improves disability in the early stages of recovery from anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery compared with standard care.

Detailed description

After being informed about the study and potential risks and benefits, patients giving written informed consent will be randomized to one of two groups in a 1:1 ratio. The treatment group will perform daily a 20-minute rehabilitation session in virtual reality, in which they will observe their virtual body performing a series of exercises they would otherwise be unable to perform in real life. Both groups will also undergo the standard rehabilitation protocol. The investigators will assess for differences between groups in self-reported disability, knee range of motion, and quadriceps strength at baseline, 4 weeks, 12 weeks and 9 months.

Conditions

• Knee Injuries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Virtual reality	Embodiment of a healthy virtual body in virtual reality and action observation/motor imagery of the subject's virtual body performing high-level lower limb exercises.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-10-01
• Primary completion: 2023-11-15
• Completion: 2023-12-15
• First posted: 2021-10-18
• Last updated: 2024-04-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain