Virtual Reality Therapy for Arm Recovery (VVITA) Stroke

Summary

The study exploits new technologies appeared in the consumer electronics market to provide stroke patients with a low-cost, easy-to-use upper limb rehabilitation tool based on virtual reality. It aims to assess the potential, validity and participation in therapy while using virtual reality to improve limb rehabilitation through rehabilitation exercises that will use games chosen to improve the capabilities of the paretic upper limb. This therapy will be administered in addition to normal therapy and will be compared with a control group that will carry out the regular conventional therapy plus a neuromotor therapy dedicated to the upper limb of equal time and dose of interventional therapy.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

OTHER

Experimental Group

A Personalized Adaptive Mirror Therapy for Upper-Limb Post-Stroke Rehabilitation using Virtual Reality and Myoelectric Control for 24 sesion in 8 weeks in add on to standard therapy.

OTHER

Control Group

Conventional Therapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

• DLR German Aerospace Center

  collaborator OTHER

• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Rome Tor Vergata

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Roma La Sapienza

  collaborator OTHER

• Fondazione C.N.R./Regione Toscana "G. Monasterio", Pisa, Italy

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• IRCCS Centro Neurolesi Bonino Pulejo

  collaborator OTHER

• University of L'Aquila

  collaborator OTHER

• I.R.C.C.S. Fondazione Santa Lucia

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Andrea d'Avella, PhD, Full Professor · 1) Laboratory of Neuromotor Physiology, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy; 2)Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

80 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-03-01

Primary Completion

2027-06-30

Completion

2027-06-30

Countries

• Italy

Study Locations