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Virtual Reality-Enhanced Rehabilitation for Cognitive Recovery in Acute Post-Stroke Patients: Pilot Study
Sponsor: Tadeja Hernja Rumpf
Summary
Post-stroke rehabilitation is essential for maximising the recovery of cognitive function. Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a promising adjunct to conventional rehabilitation therapy (CRT), with the potential to enhance cognitive performance outcomes. This study aims to evaluate the effects of VR-based rehabilitation compared with CRT on cognitive function and activities of daily living in patients with acute stroke.
Official title: Effects of Virtual Reality-Enhanced Rehabilitation on Cognitive Recovery in Acute Post-Stroke Patients: a Pilot Study
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
36
Start Date
2024-05-05
Completion Date
2025-09-24
Last Updated
2026-05-07
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Virtual reality-enhanced rehabilitation
Dose of practice and difficulty: In each VR session, participants will perform two tasks, completing one trial of each-a memory task and a meal-preparation task -with no within-session repetitions. Over ten sessions, participants will complete 10 trials of each task (30 in total). Task difficulty will be fixed and identical for all participants throughout the intervention (no automatic progression or therapist-driven difficulty changes). Adherence, tolerability, and adverse events: Participants will be scheduled to complete the prescribed VR dose (10 sessions; 150 minutes total). Adherence will be recorded at each session. Serious adverse events are not expected; all adverse events will be actively monitored and documented.
Conventional rehabilitation therapy (CRT)
Physiotherapy and occupational therapy: manual therapy techniques, passive and active-assisted mobilisation, scapular mobilisation, and task-specific training, such as horizontally moving an object across a surface, 60 minutes per session.
Locations (1)
University Medical Centre Maribor, Ljubljanska 5 Maribor, Slovenia
Maribor, Slovenia