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

NCT ID: NCT06139900

Last Updated: 2023-12-29

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

20 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-04-02

Study Completion Date

2021-06-20

Brief Summary

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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.

Detailed Description

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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.

Conditions

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Healthy

Keywords

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balance postural control virtual reality visual

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

OTHER

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Interventions

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Assessment

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

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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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
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

30 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Yeditepe University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Sahra Şirvan Can, Master's

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Yeditepe University

Çiğdem v, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Yeditepe University

Locations

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Yeditepe University

Istanbul, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status

Countries

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Turkey (Türkiye)

References

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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.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 33119679 (View on PubMed)

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/bs9110113.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 31718105 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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202106077

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id