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Using Immersive Virtual Reality for the Upper Limb Rehabilitation of Post-stroke Subjects
Sponsor: University Hospital of Ferrara
Summary
Stroke produces brain damages that results in sensory, motor, and cognitive impairments which reduce the patient's quality of life and social participation. Upper limb recovery is a complex process whose goal is to allow the patients to gain, in part or completely, independence in daily living activities, for that it represents one of the most important rehabilitation focus. Virtual reality is a fairly recent approach able to simulate concrete movements and functional tasks in a higher dosage compared to other therapies. It seems that the use of VR could improve limb function, however, the amount of this gain is still unclear because of insufficient evidence. This study aims at quantitatively investigating the effectiveness of an HMD immersive virtual reality system on the upper limb functioning in subacute stroke survivors.
Official title: Using Immersive Virtual Reality for the Upper Limb Rehabilitation of Post-stroke Subjects: a Multicenter Randomized Control Trial
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 80 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
48
Start Date
2023-03-01
Completion Date
2025-12-31
Last Updated
2025-03-25
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Virtual Reality
Four tasks, uni and bi-manuals, will be proposed for the treatment of the patient's paretic upper limb in virtual-apartment for improving the relevance and the transferability of the movements requested.
Locations (1)
Ferrara University Hospital
Ferrara, Italy