MedTrace Logo

Knee Osteoarthritis, Motor Control, Risk of Falls and Virtual Reality

NCT06362785 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 110

Last updated 2025-03-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about knee osteoarthritis, functionality, and risk of falls in community-dwelling adults aged 60 years and older. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* What are the characteristics of a community-dwelling population over 60 years and older in terms of knee osteoarthritis, functionality, and risk of falls?
* Does an intervention with virtual reality lower knee osteoarthritis symptoms, raise functionality and prevent falls in community-dwelling adults aged 60 years and older, compared to a control group receiving conventional physiotherapy treatment based on therapeutic exercise?

Participants will:

* Answer questionnaires.
* Perform physical laboratory tests through a camera-based motion capture system.
* Execute task-based exercises in a virtual environment through virtual reality.

Researchers will compare community-dwelling adults aged 60 years and older who execute task based exercises in a virtual environment through virtual reality and community-dwelling adults aged 60 years and older receiving conventional physiotherapy treatment based on therapeutic exercise to see if virtual reality improves knee osteoarthritis symptoms, functionality, and lowers fall risk.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Virtual Reality

The intervention group will engage in immersive virtual reality sessions with interactive activities involving functional movements of the spine and limbs in a virtual environment using Meta Quest 3 goggles. The intervention will last for 6 weeks, comprising a total of 12 sessions, with a maximum duration of 30 minutes of virtual reality and 15 minutes of rest (45 minutes in total per session).

BEHAVIORAL

Therapeutic exercise

The control group will receive conventional therapeutic exercise treatment following the recommendations of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI), similar to the exercises performed with VR.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre for Information and Communications Technology Research (CITIC)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Faculty of Physiotherapy

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Universidade da Coruña

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Beatriz Rodríguez-Romero, PhD · Universidade da Coruña

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-05-01
Primary Completion
2025-12-01
Completion
2026-06-01

More Related Trials

Entities

Diseases

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT06362785 on ClinicalTrials.gov