Portable Mixed Reality-based Platform for Assessment of Progress in Multisensory Rehabilitation Strategies Post-TBI

Launched by BLUEHALO · Mar 14, 2024

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This study considers Praxis: a portable testbed with low-cost wearable sensors and a mixed reality environment to deliver effective multisensory rehabilitation exercises with military face-validity. Through a small comparative pilot study, the investigators plan to provide evidence for future multi-center randomized trials (MCRTs) to show that progress in these multisensory exercises correlates with established military readiness assessments; and that the improvements in functional performance in response to multisensory rehabilitation strategies is associated with changes in brain activity...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria for Praxis Group:
• • Participating in the SPaR Program
• • 18-50 years old
• • Have a self-reported or clinician-confirmed mTBI
• • Have continued complaints of dizziness/imbalance
• • Are right-handed as determined by the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory-Short Form
• Inclusion Criteria for Control Group:
• • Participating in the SPaR Program
• • 18-50 years old
• • No complaints of dizziness/imbalance
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Having impaired mental capacity (e.g., altered capacity due to administration of any mind-altering substances or stress/life situations)
• • Displaying behavior that would significantly interfere with validity of data collection or safety during the study
• • Reporting significant pain during the evaluation (7/10 by patient subjective report)
• • Being pregnant (balance considerations)
• • Being unable to abstain from the use of alcohol and medications that might impair participant's balance or cerebral blood flow for 24 hours in advance of testing
• • Being mixed or left-handed as determined by the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory-Short Form for the Praxis group undergoing rs-fMRI.