NCT04559373Recruiting
Virtual Reality and Field Training to Enhance Community Walking After Stroke
A Virtual Reality and Field Training Toolkit to Enhance Community Ambulation and Participation in Stroke Survivors
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 7 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
While stroke survivors discharged from rehabilitation present with some recovery in mobility, their ability to ambulate in the community remains limited. The investigators propose to test a novel, low-cost, intensive and individually tailored intervention that combines virtual reality (VR) and field training to enhance community ambulation and participation in stroke survivors discharged from rehabilitation. The aims are to: (1) Assess feasibility, acceptability, safety and adherence of the intervention in stroke survivors; and (2) Examine the extent to which post-intervention changes in functional walking and participation to community walking vary according to walking, cognitive and visual-perceptual abilities. The investigators will use a virtual environment prototype simulating a shopping mall and surrounding streets, in which participants will interact using VR goggles and game controllers. Scenarios of increasing levels of complexity will be introduced. This intervention study involves a single group, multiple pre- multiple post- study design where chronic stroke participants will engage in a 4-week training program. The program will include VR training sessions performed in the clinical setting (3/week) and practice of community ambulation skills while supervised by family/caregivers (2/week). Participants will be assessed on measures of functional walking, balance \& mobility and participation to community walking. Adherence, safety and acceptability will be documented. This study will generate foundation knowledge on the response to the intervention based on individual capacities.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 40 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 6 Jul 2020
- Start date
- Apr 2021
- Primary completion date
- May 2027
- Lead sponsor
- McGill University
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT04559373
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 40
- From Apr 2021 to the primary completion date, May 2027
- 2 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Lab values
- Subjects without medical clearance for exercise
Other
- Subjects with comorbidities interfering with walking
- Subjects with comorbidities interfering with visual perception
Who the study is looking for
- People with chronic stroke and persistent deficits in walking / visual-perceptual / cognitive capacities. They can be male or female, aged from 40 to 74 years, with normal/corrected visual and auditory acuity, and present with:
- First-ever supratentorial unilateral stroke 9-24 months ago (such chronicity will ensure steady-state mobility without long-term disuse-related changes
- Mild-to-moderate hemiparesis (Chedoke McMaster Stoke Assessment stages 4/7-6/7 on postural control, leg \& foot)
- Ability to walk independently with/without walking aids for at least 1 min at 0.4-0.9 m/s (such a speed range indicates mobility not sufficient for functional community ambulation: shopping \~1.1m/s, street crossing \~1.2 m/s)
- Intact or mildly affected cognitive function (Montreal Cognitive Assessment scores ≥ 22/30)
- Intact to moderately affected visual-perceptual function (positive scores on a maximum of 3/6 tasks on the Behavioural Inattention Test)
Age in the registry: 40 years to 74 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Laval | Canada | Recruiting |
| Institut de réadaptation en déficience physique de Québec Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Québec | Canada | Not yet recruiting |
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