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Reinforced Feedback in Virtual Environment

NCT01955291 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 136

Last updated 2016-09-01

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Summary

The aims of the study is to explore whether the rehabilitation of the upper extremity performed in interaction with a virtual environment could improve motor function in post-ischemic and post-haemorrhagic stroke subjects with hemiparesis, in comparison to the traditional neuromotor rehabilitation treatment.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Reinforced Feedback in Virtual Environment (RFVE)

The patients allocated to RFVE group, will be treated using the "Virtual Reality Rehabilitation System" (VRRS). During the virtual therapy the subject will be seated in front of the wall screen grasping a sensorized real object with the affected hand. If the grasp is not possible the sensors will be fixed on a glove worn by the patient. The real object held by the subject, equipped with electromagnetic sensors, is matched to the virtual handling object. Thereafter, the patient moved the real object (e.g. ball) following the trajectory of the corresponding virtual object displayed on the computer screen in accordance with the requested virtual task.

OTHER

Traditional Neuromotor Rehabilitation

The patients randomized to the Traditional Neuromotor Rehabilitation group will be asked to perform exercises for postural control, exercises for hand pre-configuration, exercises for the stimulation of manipulation and functional skills, exercises for proximal-distal coordination. All the exercises will be performed with or without the assistance of a physiotherapist. The upper limb motricity will be trained with progressive complexity. To achieve the requested goal (in a horizontal or vertical plane) patients will be asked to perform various movements, for example: shoulder flexion and extension, shoulder abduction and adduction, shoulder internal and external rotation and shoulder circumduction, elbow flexion and extension, forearm pronation and supination, hand grasping-release and clenching into a fist.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • IRCCS San Camillo, Venezia, Italy

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Paolo Tonin, MD · Fondazione Ospedale San Camillo IRCCS

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-08-31
Completion
2015-08-31

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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