How Virtual Reality is Impacting Balance: An Examination of Postural Stability

Healthy Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Different Visual Stimuli Provided by Virtual Reality on Postural Control in Healthy Subject

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06139900
• Other study ID #: 202106077
• Status: Completed
• Start date: April 2, 2021
• Est. completion date: June 20, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: November 2023
• Source: Yeditepe University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

There are several studies examining the effects of different sensory stimuli on balance in healthy young people. Our study will especially explain how the same environment will affect postural control, when projected into VR environment. In this way, we aim to contribute to the literature and virtual reality programs used in rehabilitation.

Description:

Thanks to the development of technology in recent years, virtual reality applications have started to be included in physiotherapy. Virtual reality is used in both clinical and academic studies for the purpose of training rather than evaluation. In the literature, it has been emphasized that traditional balance training does not have any superiority over virtual reality and virtual reality training can be used as a practical alternative in the long term (12,13). Furthermore, the feedback provided by virtual reality games is effective in the patient's participation in the treatment. Different visual stimuli created using virtual reality can affect postural control in different ways (14). In addition, there is no study comparing the effect of real image and virtual reality image on postural control by transferring the current environment to virtual reality. The aim of this study is to reflect the real environment to virtual reality; To explain how postural control is affected by eyes closed, eyes open and in virtual reality. Two hypotheses were determined in this study.

H0: There is no significant difference between the real environment and three virtual environment on postural control in healhty subject.

H1: There is a significant difference between the real environment and three virtual environment on postural control in healthy subject.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 20
• Est. completion date: June 20, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: April 30, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 30 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being between the ages of 18-30

• The absence of any medical diagnosis

• Having visual acurity or corrected visual acurity

• Being volunteer

Exclusion Criteria:

• The presence of any medical diagnosis

• The presence of any neurologic symptoms

• The presence of any sensory problems

• The presence of any balance problems

• The presence of any vestibular problems

• Previous ortophedic surgery

• The use of an additional assistive device

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy

Intervention

Other:
• Assessment
No intervention will be applied to the participants. Postural stability will be evaluated in the virtual reality environment and real environment.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Yeditepe University	Istanbul

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Yeditepe University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

References & Publications (2)

Asslander L, Streuber S. Virtual reality as a tool for balance research: Eyes open body sway is reproduced in photo-realistic, but not in abstract virtual scenes. PLoS One. 2020 Oct 29;15(10):e0241479. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241479. eCollection 2020. — View Citation

Chander H, Kodithuwakku Arachchige SNK, Hill CM, Turner AJ, Deb S, Shojaei A, Hudson C, Knight AC, Carruth DW. Virtual-Reality-Induced Visual Perturbations Impact Postural Control System Behavior. Behav Sci (Basel). 2019 Nov 12;9(11):113. doi: 10.3390/bs9 — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Sway Velocity	the average displacement of CoP per second	April 2021 - May 2021
Primary	Sway area	total area obtained by the displacement of the COP	April 2021 - May 2021
Primary	Perimeter	the total displacement of CoP	April 2021 - May 2021