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Knee Osteoarthritis, Motor Control, Risk of Falls and Virtual Reality
Sponsor: Universidade da Coruña
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.
Official title: Study on the Relationship Between Knee Osteoarthritis, Motor Control and the Risk of Falls, and the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality in Managing It in Older People
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
60 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
110
Start Date
2025-05-01
Completion Date
2026-06-01
Last Updated
2025-03-17
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Interventions
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).
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.