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NCT06154122: VRULT
Virtual Reality Upper Limb Therapy for People With Spinal Cord Injury
NA trial testing Virtual Reality Upper Limb Rehabilitation Games in Tetraplegia in 12 participants. Completed in 1 August 2025.
1 August 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Glasgow Caledonian University |
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| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | other |
| Enrollment | 12 |
| Start date | 15 March 2024 |
| Primary completion | 1 August 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 1 August 2025 |
| Sites | 1 location across United Kingdom |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Virtual Reality Upper Limb Rehabilitation Games
- Upper Limb Rehabilitation
Conditions studied
- Tetraplegia — all drugs for Tetraplegia →
- Spinal Cord Injuries — all drugs for Spinal Cord Injuries →
- Upper Extremity Paralysis — all drugs for Upper Extremity Paralysis →
Sponsor
Glasgow Caledonian University
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Tetraplegia or Spinal Cord Injuries. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
This study aims to test if the VR games could be a form of upper limb rehabilitation for people with arm/hand problems due to SCI while they are in hospital. Participants who have had a spinal cord injury and have tetraplegia will be recruited from the Queen Elizabeth National Spinal Injuries Unit. After they have provided informed consent, they will receive 12 weeks of either standard upper limb therapy ('control group'), or both the VR activities and standard treatment ('VR Group'). Participants who receive VR activities will engage in immersive VR games that have been designed in co-production with people with tetraplegia and spinal cord injury specialists. The games aim to help participants improve the use of their arms and hands while they are undergoing primary rehabilitation within the Queen Elizabeth National Spinal Injuries Unit (QENSIU). The participants who are in the control group will receive their usual rehabilitation and will be given the opportunity to try the VR games after the completion of their involvement in the trial. This study will measure the feasibility (the 'primary outcome') and explore the effectiveness (the 'secondary outcome') of the VR intervention. Feasibility will be measured by recording how often the VR games are used and whether or not participants use the games for the full duration of the trial. Participants and therapists will be interviewed at the end of the trial.
Publications & conference data
1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Combining Therapeutic Strategies to Treat the Injured Spinal Cord: A Translational Perspective.
Sherman BC, Schmidt Read M, Hoh DJ, Guest JD, et al · · 2025 · cited 2× · PMID 40929022 · DOI 10.1177/08977151251371710
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- PubMed search for NCT06154122
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06154122 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 9 June 2026
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Glasgow Caledonian University
- Last refreshed: 22 September 2025
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