Virtual Reality Home Rehabilitation After Stroke or Parkinson's Disease
Tests virtual reality rehabilitation at home in adults with stroke or Parkinson's disease.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Azienda Usl di Bologna
- Where
- Bologna, ItalySee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Motor and Cognitive Telerehabilitation in a Virtual Environment in Patients With Post-stroke Sequelae and Parkinson's Disease
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- People taking part
- 60 people, planned
- Started
- Jun 2026
- Expected to end
- Dec 2026
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- VR-based Telerehabilitation with Home Kit
- Standard Rehabilitation (Conventional Care)
- Record updated
- 14 May 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults who had a stroke or have Parkinson's disease and have an upper limb problem. It tests rehabilitation at home with virtual reality.
- Age
- Older than 18 years
- Sex
- Women and men can join.
- Disease stage
- Stroke or Parkinson's disease diagnosed at least 2 months ago, with upper limb impairment.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Ongoing clinical instability
- Important cognitive impairment
- Psychiatric, neurological, or internal medicine comorbidities
- Severe rigidity or hypertonia
- Severe visual deficit
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Age >18 years old, both sex
- stroke or Parkinson diagnosis > or = 2 months
- upper limb impairment
- informed consent signed
Who cannot take part
- important cognitive impairment
- psychiatric, neurological, or internal medicine comorbidities
- ongoing clinical instability
- severe rigidity or hypertonia
- severe visual deficit
- pregnancy women
Where in Italy
- IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna - AUSL of BolognaBologna, ItalyContact: Giada LulliniNo longer taking part
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this interventional pilot trial is to evaluate whether a telerehabilitation protocol based on immersive virtual reality (VR) is effective and feasible for the recovery of cognitive and/or motor functions in patients with sequelae of ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke or with Parkinson's disease.
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The main questions it aims to answer are:
* Does the VR-based telerehabilitation protocol improve cognitive and/or motor outcomes compared to conventional rehabilitation? * Is the protocol feasible, defined as ≥80% adherence among participants? Is the system acceptable and user-friendly from the patient's perspective? Researchers will compare an interventional arm receiving telerehabilitation via an immersive VR home kit with a control arm receiving conventional rehabilitation according to standard clinical practice. Both groups will receive the same number of sessions, with the same duration and weekly frequency. Outcomes will be assessed at baseline (T0), after 4 weeks of treatment (T1), and at 3-month follow-up (T2).
The 2 groups in the trial
- Telerehabilitation with Immersive Virtual Reality (TR Group)Treatment being tested
Patients will receive an individualized cognitive and/or motor rehabilitation protocol via a certified Home Kit inclusive of an immersive VR headset. After 3 in-person familiarization sessions, patients will perform the rehabilitation program at home for 50 minutes/day, 5 days/week, for 4 weeks, in asynchronous mode with one weekly synchronous videoconference session with the therapist. Continuous telemonitoring and parameter adaptation will be provided throughout the treatment period.
Treatment: VR-based Telerehabilitation with Home Kit
- Conventional Rehabilitation (Control Group)Existing treatment, for comparison
Patients will receive cognitive and/or motor rehabilitation according to standard clinical practice, consisting of individual rehabilitation sessions of 50 minutes, 5 days per week, for 4 weeks, as defined by the individual rehabilitation project.
Treatment: Standard Rehabilitation (Conventional Care)
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Telerehabilitation in a Virtual Environment for Sensorimotor and Cognitive Recovery in Patients With Post-stroke Sequelae and Parkinson's Disease: a Pilot Study
- Plain-language title
- Virtual Reality Home Rehabilitation After Stroke or Parkinson's DiseaseGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 13 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 14 May 2026