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Virtual Reality and Active Video Games to Improve Balance in Children With Brain Injury

NCT03386968 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 4

Last updated 2022-01-10

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Summary

The purpose of this pilot feasibility study is to assess the feasibility of using the Playstation Xbox 360 and Rutgers V-step via a Kinect Sensor with active video game software as a part of a physical therapy intervention to improve obstacle negotiation, gait speed, and stair negotiation in ambulatory children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) hemiparesis or spastic diplegia, or non-progressive brain injury (BI). Children will be assessed using perceptual, balance, functional and gait assessments.

Conditions

  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Acquired Brain Injury

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Active video gaming

Children will visit Blythedale for 8 sessions, one 45-session visit per week, in place of one of the child's typical physical therapy sessions. During each session, children will play a video game on the X-Box Kinect system, using the games "Kinect Adventures" and "Kinect Sports". The child will first play a "Kinect Adventures" game, which requires ambulating, ducking, and dodging one's way through an obstacle course.

BEHAVIORAL

Usual care physical therapy

Children will attend their usual care physical therapy appointments at Blythedale.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Blythedale Children's Hospital

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-12-07
Primary Completion
2022-01-06
Completion
2022-01-06

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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