NCT05872217

VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY FOR CEREBRAL PALSY

VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY FOR UPPER EXTREMITY REHABILITATION OF CHILDREN WITH UNILATERAL CEREBRAL PALSY

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The VRapeutic (Full-immersive game-based therapy) is new therapeutic Egyptian software. It has the potential to provide intensive, repetitive, and task-oriented training. It may increase children's motivation, enjoyment, active social participation. Children with UCP may experience varieties of associated health conditions as difficulty of movement, instability of postural balance, difficulty of motor planning and control which impact on UE function.

Detailed description

Ethical statement this study was approved by institutional Review Board of the faculty of physical therapy ,cairo university .Egypt (no.P.T.REC/012/004237) . Study Design A prospective randomized controlled trial of pre-post study design with two months follow-up evaluation will be used. Sample size estimation will be conducted to determine the number of recruited children. G\*POWER statistical software (version 3.1.9.2) will be used using α=0.05, power 80% allocation ratio N2/N1 =1. Randomization The selected children will be assigned by simple randomization via closed envelopes into two equal groups (control and study); the envelope will be contained a letter indicating whether the child will be assigned to the control or to the study group.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	conventional upper extremity therapeutic program	• This group will receive conventional UE therapeutic program for 60 minutes each session including: * Exercises based on neurodevelopment technique . * Gentle manual stretching for tight muscles of the affected UE from proximal to distal segments for 5minutes. * Weight-bearing exercises for 10minutes for UE from prone lying, side sitting and quadriped position. * Strengthening exercises for 10 minutes for muscles of UE as push-up from prone lying position, quadriped position, 3 point exercise, walk on hand, climbing, hanging on a bar, squeeze stress balls, cutting usescissors to strengthen hand . * Goal directed training for 10 minutes the child will practice specific tasks that are needed for everyday life and which they find a challenge like (3 daily tasks as cleaning mirror, dressing and undressing, using pen and ruler to draw shapes, brushing teeth . * Fine motor activities as reach, grasp, carry and release activities.
OTHER	full immersive VRapeutic software gaming technology	• Children in this group will receive the same conventional UE therapeutic program as control group for 60 minutes in addition to virtual reality session using VRapeutic software gaming technology, Archeeko module (figure 3) for 30 min/3 sessions/week for 8 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-06-01
• Primary completion: 2024-01-01
• Completion: 2024-02-01
• First posted: 2023-05-24
• Last updated: 2023-05-24

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Egypt