NCT06078111

Neglect Treatment by Prism Adaptation in the Acute Phase

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Geneva, Switzerland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This project aims at unveiling the beneficial effects of prism adaptation as early rehabilitation technique to treat unilateral spatial neglect in the acute phase after a brain damage. This syndrome, frequent and very invalidating for daily life activities after a brain damage, is a cognitive disorder of lack of attention towards a part of the space. Patients at a first event brain injury hospitalized into the Neurology and Neurosurgery Departments and affected by spatial neglect will undergo to a protocol of five consecutive rehabilitation treatments, being assigned to the experimental (prisms) or control groups (neutral prisms). The effectiveness of the treatment will be assessed with cognitive, functional and motor-related measures, as well as a follow up 3 months later. These results can have a strong impact on the long-term functional outcome of these patients.

Conditions

• Unilateral Spatial Neglect

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Prism 10 + visuo-motor activities	Visuo-motor activities of exploration in the left and right space, adapting activities of daily living, while wearing prisms with 10 degrees of visual field deviation
BEHAVIORAL	Neutral Prism + visuo-motor activities	Visuo-motor activities of exploration in the left and right space, adapting activities of daily living, while wearing prisms with no visual field deviation

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-11-01
• Primary completion: 2025-09-01
• Completion: 2026-02-01
• First posted: 2023-10-11
• Last updated: 2024-06-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland