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Virtual Reality Based Interventions After Brain Injury

NCT07586566 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 15

Last updated 2026-05-14

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Summary

After a brain injury, cognitive impairments are common, affecting an individual's independence and quality of life. Although various training programs are used in rehabilitation, it remains unclear how effective they are in real-life settings. The project now being planned at CogTech, a technology-driven rehabilitation unit at Danderyd Hospital, aims to evaluate new methods that can enhance both training effectiveness and motivation.

In the project, the effect of game-based training in virtual reality (VR) on cognition will be evaluated. VR offers a more realistic and engaging environment, which may improve the transfer of training outcomes to everyday situations. In this feasibility study, ten patients at the clinic will receive VR-training at 15 occasions in addition to rehabilitation as usual.

The results may contribute to the development of more individualized rehabilitation, reduced treatment times, and improved quality of life for people with brain injury.

Conditions

  • Acquired Brain Injury (Including Stroke)

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

VR/AR intervention

Participants will engage in cognitively demanding games such as Beat Saber, Zooma, or XR Brain Stimulation for 30-60 minutes, 3 days a week for 5 weeks using an augmented reality (AR) (RehAtt® XR) or VR headset (i.e., Meta Quest 3 or Oculus Rift S). Beat Saber and Zooma are both commercially available games. In Beat Saber players use two colored sabers to slice incoming music-synchronized blocks in the directions indicated, while also dodging obstacles like walls and bombs. Zooma involves shooting rolling colored balls to create matches before they reach the endpoint ("snapdragon"), using both hands for faster color-matching. XR Brain Stimulation is developed to be used in brain injury rehabilitation and involves 3D games in the form of holograms integrated in the real surroundings.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Stiftelsen Promobila

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Danderyd Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jonas Stenberg, PhD · Danderyd Hospital / Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-06-01
Primary Completion
2027-12-31
Completion
2028-07-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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