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The Impact of Physical Exercise on Navigation Performance in Soldier

NCT02831036 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2016-07-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

20 healthy man, 10 in trial group and 10 in control group (randomly divided) will participate in the experiment on order to evaluate if improvement in physical fitness influences spatial learning in humans.

Conditions

  • Spatial Learning

Interventions

OTHER

training program

subjects in the trial group will follow a training program which includes 3 times a week running on a treadmill.

OTHER

VO2max test

each subject will perform 4 times VO2max test according to BRUCE protocol in order to evaluate his aerobic fitness.

OTHER

spatial orientation test

each subject will undergo 4 spatial orientation tests during the trial (month between 2 tests), each test is composed of 5 following days in which the subject will wear virtual reality glasses (Oculus Rift DK2) and attempt to arrive different destinations in a virtual maze tasks (using xbox one controller). each day will be given 3 attempts, the duration of each attempt is 2 min.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    collaborator OTHER

  • Sheba Medical Center

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Haggai Schermann, M.D · Sheba Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
30 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-10-31
Primary Completion
2017-10-31
Completion
2018-04-30

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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