NCT05846464

Virtual Reality to Enhance Upper Extremity Physical Therapy and Recovery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 9 (actual)
• Sponsor: Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a descriptive study assessing the feasibility of using VR rehabilitation with unilateral (or bilateral) impairment of the arm, wrist and or hand resulting in reduced range of motion, dexterity, and/or strength of the hand.

Detailed description

The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of using a virtual reality program to monitor and encourage compliance with musculoskeletal home exercise programs. It hypothesizes that the treatment will display improved compliance, range of motion, and general function for individuals with upper extremity musculoskeletal deficits. The primary objectives are to: 1. Describe participant compliance with an immersive game-based virtual reality (VR) rehabilitation device for delivering at-home occupational therapy exercises for the wrist and hand in individuals with motor impairments. 2. Describe and compare functional outcomes among participants before and after completing at-home rehabilitation using the VR system. These objective outcomes will be measured through various standardized tests completed by qualified study team members.

Conditions

• Injuries to the Hand and Wrist

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Meta Quest 2	The Meta/Oculus Quest (along with the SignWave software) delivers an immersive audio/visual-based game environment where the users hand is created and displayed in the virtual environment and matches target gestures to the beat of the music.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-03-13
• Primary completion: 2023-11-30
• Completion: 2023-12-01
• First posted: 2023-05-06
• Last updated: 2025-03-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study