Use of Virtual Reality Devices for Vestibular Rehabilitation

Use of Virtual Reality Devices for Vestibular Rehabilitation in Patients with Vestibular Hypofunction

The aim of this study is to investigate the superiority of virtual reality-supported vestibular rehabilitation exercises over conventional vestibular rehabilitation exercises in patients with complaints such as vertigo, loss of balance, falling, and gait imbalance.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Virtual Reality
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: Virtual Reality; Other: Traditional home exercises

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 41
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Denizli, Turkey, 20070
    • Pamukkale University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 40 years to 65 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Complaining dizziness and/or instability for more than 3 months
• Patients aged 18 and over and under 65

Exclusion Criteria:

• Ear disease, head injury
• Ototoxic drug use
• Neurological and psychiatric illness that causes cooperation disorder
• Patients with orthopedic and systemic disorders that prevent exercising
• Patients with active malignancies
• Diseases that affect the use of glasses (epilepsy, vision loss, etc.)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Group 1; Group 1 use virtual reality.	Device: Virtual Reality; Vestibular rehabilitation is an exercise-based program, designed by a specialty-trained vestibular physical therapist, to improve balance and reduce problems related to dizziness.
Experimental: Group 2; Group 2 do traditional home exercises.	Other: Traditional home exercises; Vestibular rehabilitation is an exercise-based program, designed by a specialty-trained vestibular physical therapist, to improve balance and reduce problems related to dizziness.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Posturography	Posturography; It gives numerical data by comparing the data obtained from these three systems, whichever is caused by the patient's balance disorder, somatosensory system affected, visual system affected, or vestibular system affected.	1 year
Subjective Visual Vertical	Subjective visual vertical test, measures the functions of the utricular end organ.	1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Pamukkale University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Fazıl N Ardıç, MD, Pamukkale University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 21, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 15, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): June 15, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 21, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 23, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): February 24, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 26, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 23, 2025
• Last Verified: March 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 8

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No