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Impact of Virtual Reality Physiotherapy on Multiple Sclerosis Patients

NCT06735053 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 26

Last updated 2025-02-21

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if virtual reality combined with conventional physiotherapy intervention works to treat moderate to severe multiple sclerosis persons. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Does the application of a virtual reality-based program along with conventional physiotherapy produces improvements compared to the application of conventional physiotherapy and placebo virtual reality in motor aspects of patients with multiple sclerosis?
* Does the application of a virtual reality-based program along with conventional physiotherapy produces improvements compared to the application of conventional physiotherapy and placebo virtual reality in cognitive aspects of patients with multiple sclerosis

Researchers will compare a virtual reality-based program along with conventional physiotherapy with a placebo virtual reality to see if virtual reality improve motor and cognitive aspects of multiple sclerosis.

Participants will:

* Visit the clinic twice a week for 10 weeks to receive a 1-hour session of virtual reality and conventional physiotherapy.
* Be assessed using various scales and questionnaires at three different times: at the start of the study, at the end of the treatment, and 4 weeks after the study ends.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Virtual Reality group

Virtual reality group will perform online reality-based device following a therapeutic protocol supervised by a physiotherapist in which the level of demand will be adjusted to the patient's evolution. This programme provides a gamified and challenging online environment to enhance motor learning and induce sensorimotor adaptations. Additionally, they will receive conventional physiotherapy approach, oriented to the specific objectives of each patient, aiming to normalize tone, activate weakened muscles, facilitate movement, recover sensitivity, and compensate for functional deficits. Additionally, global kinesitherapy, motor coordination exercises, pedalier, vibration therapy (vibrosphere®), and analgesic electrotherapy will be performed if necessary.

OTHER

Placebo virtual reality group

The control group will undergo a conventional physiotherapy program based on the normalization of tone, activation of weakened muscles and facilitation of normal movement, recovery of alterations in sensitivity, and compensation of lost functional deficits. In addition, global kinesitherapy exercises will be performed on a stretcher, motor coordination exercises, pedalier, vibration therapy (vibrosphere ®) and analgesic electrotherapy if necessary. Finally, in order to minimize the differences between the control and intervention groups, the participants of the control group will watch a 15-minute generic 2D video freely accessible on the Youtube platform from the VR glasses, without specific software.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • European University of Madrid

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-02-28
Primary Completion
2025-05-31
Completion
2025-07-31

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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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.

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