Aims: To demonstrate the effect of a program based on video games as a means to improve abilities and basic skills affected by lymphedema, and its impact on quality of life. Design: longitudinal, pre-experimental, with pre / post-test and evaluation, assessor blinded study. Method: Data on shoulder pain and disability, health-related quality of life, strength and articulate activated by the OSS (Oxford Shoulder Score), SPADI (Shoulder Pain and Disability Index), FACT-B + 4 (Functional Assesment of Cancer Therapy Questionnaire for Breast Cancer), respectively goniometry and dynamometry amplitude scales will be collected. The intervention will be performed with the Wii ™ console and the Wii Balance BoardTM, during 5 individual weekly sessions of 30 minutes.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
11
Participants will use the Wii console and the Wii balance board, to play different video games which imply shoulder movements. They will receive 5 individual sessions of 30 minutes.
Universidad de Burgos. Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud.
Burgos, Spain
Change in Range motion
Time frame: Pre intervention and one week after having finished the program
Change in strength
Time frame: Pre intervention and one week after having finished the program
Change in Oxford Shoulder Scale
Time frame: Pre intervention and one week after having finished the program
Change in Shoulder Pain and Disability Index
Time frame: Pre intervention and one week after having finished the program
Change in quality of life (FUNCTIONAL ASSESMENT OF CANCER THERAPY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR BREAST CANCER (FACT-B+4)
Time frame: Pre intervention and one week after having finished the program
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