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Virtual reality gait training versus non-virtual reality gait training for improving participation in subacute stroke survivors: study protocol of the ViRTAS randomized controlled trial.
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Comparative Effects of Perturbation Based Balance Training and Whole Body Vibration on Balance and Gait in Sub-acute Stroke Patients.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Virtual reality-based rehabilitation experience of stroke survivors: a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of virtual reality-based intervention on depression in stroke patients: a meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
- Effect of Virtual Reality Gait Training on Participation in Survivors of Subacute Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Physical therapy · 2021Trial
- A Novel Virtual Reality Training Strategy for Poststroke Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of healthcare engineering · 2021Trial
- Interventions to improve outdoor mobility among people living with disabilities: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2024Review
- Exploring the efficacy of virtual reality-based rehabilitation in stroke: a narrative review of current evidence.Annals of medicine · 2023Review
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- A non-immersive virtual reality-based intervention to enhance lower-extremity motor function and gait in patients with subacute cerebral infarction: A pilot randomized controlled trial with 1-year follow-up.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- A Review of the Potential of Virtual Walking Techniques for Gait Rehabilitation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Review
- Virtual Reality Gait Training to Promote Balance and Gait Among Older People: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Effect of Spatial Disorientation in a Virtual Environment on Gait and Vital Features in Patients with Dementia: Pilot Single-Blind Randomized Control Trial.JMIR serious games · 2020Article
- Gait rehabilitation after stroke: review of the evidence of predictors, clinical outcomes and timing for interventions.Acta neurologica Belgica · 2020Review
- [Evaluation of the effectiveness of immersive virtual reality-based exercise system for vestibular rehabilitation].Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundA stroke often results in gait impairments, activity limitations and restricted participation in daily life. Virtual reality (VR) has shown to be beneficial for improving gait ability after stroke. Previous studies regarding VR focused mainly on improvements in functional outcomes. As participation in daily life is an important goal for rehabilitation after stroke, it is of importance to investigate if VR gait training improves participation. The primary aim of this study is to examine the effect of VR gait training on participation in community-living people after stroke. METHODS/
designThe ViRTAS study comprises a single-blinded, randomized controlled trial with two parallel groups. Fifty people between 2 weeks and 6 months after stroke, who experience constraints with walking in daily life, are randomly assigned to the virtual reality gait training (VRT) group or the non-virtual reality gait training (non-VRT) group. Both training interventions consist of 12 30-min sessions in an outpatient rehabilitation clinic during 6 weeks. Assessments are performed at baseline, post intervention and 3 months post intervention. The primary outcome is participation measured with the Utrecht Scale for Evaluation of Rehabilitation-Participation (USER-P). Secondary outcomes are subjective physical functioning, functional mobility, walking ability, walking activity, fatigue, anxiety and depression, falls efficacy and quality of life. DISCUSSION: The results of the study provide insight into the effect of VR gait training on participation after stroke.
trial registrationNetherlands National Trial Register, Identifier NTR6215 . Registered on 3 February 2017.
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