This study will test a portable virtual reality (VR) system with integrated eye tracking called Virtual Eye Rotation Vision Exercises (VERVE). The proposed VERVE platform will deliver vergence therapy in an automated manner. This research will involve 30 non-traumatic brain injury (TBI) binocularly normal (BNC) Veterans and 50 post-traumatic convergence insufficiency (PTCI) Veterans who will undergo Active and Sham therapy (equally divided groups) to determine the effectiveness of VERVE vergence therapy.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Enrollment
100
VERVE utilizes a virtual reality (VR) headset with integrated eye-tracking where the patient makes specific vergence eye movements by playing a VR game controlled by eye movements. Participants will be making convergence and divergence eye movements as steps and ramps.
VERVE game without changes in eye movement demands. Maximizing gameplay with no intervention.
New Mexico VA Health Care System
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
RECRUITINGNear Point of Convergence
Normal range is \< 6 cm
Time frame: Baseline (preintervention), within 1 week after session 4 of intervention, within 1 week after session 8 of intervention, within 1 week after session 12 of intervention, and within 1 week after intervention
Positive Fusional Vergence
Normal range is \>15 Prism Diopters
Time frame: Baseline (preintervention), within 1 week after session 4 of intervention, within 1 week after session 8 of intervention, within 1 week after session 12 of intervention, and within 1 week after intervention
Objective Eye-Tracking Measures (Peak Velocity)
measured in degress/second
Time frame: Baseline (preintervention) and within 1 week after intervention
Objective Eye-Tracking Measures (Response Accuracy)
measured as a percentage of response divided by target amplitude
Time frame: Baseline (preintervention) and within 1 week after intervention
Brain Injury Vision Symptom Survey
Normal range is \< 31 for adults
Time frame: Baseline (preintervention) and within 1 week after intervention
Neurobehavioral Symptom Inventory
Normal range is \< 18 for adults
Time frame: Baseline (preintervention) and within 1 week after intervention
Convergence Insufficiency Symptom Survey
Normal range is \< 21 for adults
Time frame: Baseline (preintervention) and within 1 week after intervention
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