The investigators will conduct a single-blind, randomized controlled trial of 60 patients with subacute stroke. Patients will be randomly assigned into a control group and an intervention group. The intervention group will participate in immersion VR training for 3 weeks. The control group will receive for traditional rehabilitation training for 3 weeks. Then, the patients will be reevaluated to determine changes in upper extremity function, cognitive function, cortical and subcortical activation patterns, and performance of activities of daily living after the baseline assessment.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
40
Intervention group received VR-based rehabilitation,including Virtual kitchen and so on.The patients took part in the exercise program for 30 minutes each day, five times per week, for 3 weeks. All subjects received physiotherapy, which accounts for an average of 30 minutes of physiotherapy per day on tolerance.
The traditional rehabilitation training included occupational therapy and physical therapy, patients took part in the traditional rehabilitation training for 60 minutes each day, five times per week, for 3 weeks.
Songhe Jiang
Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
Change from Baseline Arm Movement Ability at 3 months
The Fugl-Meyer Assessment
Time frame: Baseline and at 3 months
Change from Baseline Activities of Daily Living (ADL) at 3 months
The Barthel index
Time frame: Baseline and at 3 months
Change from Baseline Cognitive Function at 3 months
the Korea-MiniMental Status Evaluation (K-MMSE)
Time frame: Baseline and at 3 months
Change from Baseline Cortical and Subcortical Activation Patterns at 3 months
Functional MRI (fMRI)
Time frame: Baseline and at 3 months
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