NCT06198582

The Effect of Virtual Reality Based Task Specific Exercises in Patients With Hand Flexor Tendon Injury

Evaluation of the Effect of Virtual Reality Based Task Specific Exercises on Functional Level and Disease Related Quality of Life in Patients With Hand Flexor Tendon Injury

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 52 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ankara City Hospital Bilkent · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study,the investigators aimed to investigate the effects of virtual reality-based task-specific exercises applied in addition to conventional rehabilitation program on functional level and disease-related quality of life in patients who underwent surgical repair due to flexor tendon damage due to traumatic hand injury.

Conditions

• Tendon Injury - Hand
• Flexor Tendon Rupture

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Virtual Reality Exercises	In addition to conventional treatment, patients in the study group underwent a virtual reality-based task-specific exercise program in a computer-based virtual reality station. Two different virtual reality games that fit the definition of task-specific exercise were selected for our study. In order for the patient to complete the task in the game, the patient was asked to extend the upper extremity and hand to touch the virtual object through the reflection on the screen and to first grasp the object in the virtual environment by making active flexion with all fingers and to move it from one place to another on a certain plane without disturbing the grasping posture of the hand. These virtual reality exercises selected in our study were practiced under the supervision of the researcher 3 days a week for 15 minutes each for a total of 4 weeks. These sessions consisted of three sets of 2.5 minutes each for each game, with 15-second breaks between sets.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-01
• Primary completion: 2022-01-31
• Completion: 2022-01-31
• First posted: 2024-01-10
• Last updated: 2024-01-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)