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NCT03869138
Alternative Therapies for Improving Physical Function in Individuals With Stroke
NA trial testing Virtual-reality based dance training in Stroke in 120 participants. Currently enrolling.
30 September 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | University of Illinois at Chicago |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Recruiting now |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | na |
| Design | single group |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 120 |
| Start date | 9 September 2019 |
| Primary completion | 30 September 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 30 September 2025 |
| Sites | 2 locations across United States |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Virtual-reality based dance training
Conditions studied
- Stroke — all drugs for Stroke →
Sponsor
University of Illinois at Chicago
Who can join
Adults 18 to 90, any sex, with Stroke. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
Neurological impairment is a devastating disease for patients and their families and a leading cause of adult disability. Traditional rehabilitative therapies can help regain motor function and ameliorate disability. However, health care reimbursed rehabilitation is usually provided for up to 6 months post stroke (3 months in form of inpatient therapy and 3 months in outpatient therapy). There are increasing community and other facilities offering rehabilitation in form of conventional, recreational and alternative (Yoga, Tai-chi) therapy. However, implementation of these conventional therapy techniques in individuals with neurological disorder impairments is tedious, resource-intensive, and costly, often requiring transportation of patients to specialized facilities. Based on recent evidence suggesting significant benefits of repetitive, task-orientated training, investigators propose to evaluate the feasibility of an alternative dance and gaming based virtual dance and gaming based therapy to improve overall physical function of community-dwelling individuals with neurological impairments, compared to conventional therapeutic rehabilitation. This pilot study aims to systematically obtain pilot data on compliance and efficacy as well as performing power analysis and sample size calculation for developing it into a randomized controlled trial for extramural funding purposes. The objective of the study is to determine the safety, feasibility, compliance and efficacy of an alternative dance and gaming-based virtual gaming therapy to improve overall physical function of community-dwelling individuals with neurologically impairment and compare it to that of conventional rehabilitation and also to determine the gains in community participation and integration with longer-term compliance to the dance and gaming -based intervention.
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03869138 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Illinois at Chicago
- Last refreshed: 15 September 2025
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