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Haptic-Assisted Virtual Reality Upper-Limb Rehabilitation After Intracerebral Haemorrhage
Sponsor: University Medical Centre Maribor
Summary
After spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH), many survivors have persistent weakness of the arm and hand. Virtual reality (VR) training with haptic (force-feedback) devices may support upper-limb recovery, but evidence comes mainly from ischaemic or mixed stroke populations. This exploratory substudy of the CrossReg-4-Health cohort will include 100 adults with upper-limb motor impairment after ICH. All participants will receive conventional physiotherapy and occupational therapy (ten 60-minute sessions over two weeks). Half will additionally receive 15 minutes of supervised haptic-assisted VR training per session using the Bimeo PRO system. Upper-limb motor function, disability, adherence, tolerability and adverse events will be assessed before and after the two-week programme to estimate feasibility and preliminary effect sizes for future trials.
Official title: Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of Haptic-Assisted Virtual Reality Rehabilitation for Upper-Limb Motor Impairment After Spontaneous Intracerebral Haemorrhage: An Exploratory Substudy of the CrossReg-4-Health Cohort
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
100
Start Date
2026-11-01
Completion Date
2028-04-30
Last Updated
2026-10-20
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Haptic-assisted virtual reality training (Bimeo PRO)
Supervised 15-minute VR sessions with the Bimeo PRO haptic system (Kinestica d.o.o., Slovenia) in a unimanual two-dimensional configuration on a flat surface, consisting of reaching, tracking and labyrinth navigation tasks at fixed difficulty; delivered in each of 10 sessions over 2 weeks.
Conventional rehabilitation
Standard physiotherapy and occupational therapy including manual therapy techniques, passive and active-assisted mobilisation, scapular mobilisation and task-specific upper-limb training; 10 sessions of 60 minutes over 2 weeks.
Locations (3)
LKH-Universitätsklinikum Graz, Medical University of Graz
Graz, Austria
Klinikum Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
Klagenfurt, Austria
University Medical Centre Maribor, Department of Neurology
Maribor, Slovenia