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Role of Virtual Reality in Hand Rehabilitation for Children With Cerebral Palsy

NCT04954144 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 32

Last updated 2021-07-08

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Summary

Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a neurodevelopmental dysfunction which is permanent, non-progressive, and caused by brain insult or injury.Although the basic finding of CP is having motor function problems, visual, auditory, cognitive and behavioural problems are also seen in CP.Having these problems interfere the functional independence of children with CP, so their daily life of activities is limited.One of the way of increasing the functional independence of these children is providing them hand rehabilitation.In the event of having hand rehabilitation, children would achieve more daily living skills.Although having hand rehabilitation is crucial for these children, they would lose their motivation on this by the time because rehabilitation is a long process,For that reason, new therapy techniques are tried by therapists to motivate these children during their rehabilitation seances.Virtual reality rehabilitation is one of these new techniques used for designing enjoyable and effective seances.Especially leap motion sensors are preferred to create virtual environment, because they are cheap, portable, touchless and easy to use.These sensors can detect hand movements and recognize hand gestures by using infrared.Our study was aimed to investigate the effect of fine motor grip studies in virtual reality environment on performance based hand skills in children with CP.Thirty two children with CP (6-18) were included in this study.Children were randomly assigned into two equal-sized groups: control and study groups.Participants in both groups received a neurodevelopmental therapy program.The study group additionally received virtual reality rehabilitation programme. In control group, neurodevelopmental treatment was provided 45 mins,2 d/week for 2 successive months.In study group, neurodevelopmental treatment was provided 30 mins and virtual rehabilitation programme was provided 15 mins, 2 d/week for 2 successive months. To evaluate the performance based hand skills; Box and Block Test, Nine Hole Peg Test and Pink Tower (Montessori) Test were used.

Conditions

  • Physical Disability
  • Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

DEVICE

Leap Motion Sensor

As a virtual reality treatment method, leap motion sensor was integrated with laptop computer and participants played object capture, firefly, bee-batting games to improve performance based hand skills.

OTHER

Neurodevelopmental Treatment Approach

It is a method that tries to control sensorimotor components of muscle tone, reflexes, abnormal movement patterns, postural control, sensory-perception and memory problems with special techniques.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Abant Izzet Baysal University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ayşe Neriman Narin, Asst.Prof · Abant Izzet Baysal University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-02-16
Primary Completion
2021-04-13
Completion
2021-04-20

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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