Ankle Sprain Rehabilitation With the Wii Balance Board

NCT01449760 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: 09_116
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 90
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Physical activity and in particular sport is beneficial to health. Nevertheless, some of these activities may create a risk of injury. Ankle sprain is the most common sport related injury. Sports that are causing the highest number of ankle sprains are: football (30%), handball-basketball-volleyball-rugby (24%), gymnastics sports (6%), skiing (6%), cycling (6%), athletics (4%) and contact sports (4%). A recent study in the Netherlands identified a total of 1.3 million sports injuries. 47% of these patients required medical care. The total costs (direct and indirect) were assessed 84.240.000 EUR per year. Prospective studies demonstrated that athletes with a ankle sprain have a twofold risk of re-injury during the first year after the trauma, and in half of patients with an ankle sprain recurrence this could lead to instability or chronic pain of the ankle. The Wii Balance Board ® is a tool that is increasingly used in the field of health. In some hospitals, therapists are beginning to use it for the rehabilitation of patients after surgery, fractures or strokes. Patients are asked to complete their physical therapy session by practicing "sports" via video games such as skiing, bowling or hula hoop. Currently, there are no randomized controlled studies that publish on the effectiveness of this tool. Recently, a study investigated the efficacy of the Wii Balance Board ® to improve balance, strength, joint mobility and level of physical activity. After 10 weeks of training, people an increased strength and balance was found. However, these results still require statistical confirmation. Thus this objectives of this study are

• To assess the efficacy of exercise training with the Wii Balance Board ® Platform
• To evaluate the effectiveness of physical therapy (based on current guidelines)
• To compare these two types of care (conventional physiotherapy versus Wii) to a control group (non-treatment).

Conditions

Ankle Sprain

Keywords

Ankle sprain; Balance; Gait

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in the balance performance(COP displacement in ML and AP direction)

  Change in the range of COP displacement during a single leg stance of 30 sec Change in the velocity of COP displacement during a single leg stance of 30 sec

  6 Weeks after the ankle sprain occured, after treatment (6 weeks) and in a 6 month follow up

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Change in several functional parameters

  6 weeks after ankle sprain, after treatment (6 weeks) and 6 month follow up

Study Arms (3)

No treatment

NO INTERVENTION

Physical Therapy

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Other: Physical Therapy

Wii Balance group

EXPERIMENTAL

Other: Wii Balance Board

Interventions

Physical Therapy OTHER

These patients have a standardized conventional therapy (i.e. 9 sessions of physical therapy over 6 weeks)

Also known as: physiotherapy

Physical Therapy

Wii Balance Board OTHER

These patients get an instruction about how to install and use the Wii Balance Board ®. After the instruction they get the equipment for 6 weeks.

Wii Balance group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 64 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Patients with an ankle sprain (grad 1 or 2), between 18 and 65 years old,

You may not qualify if:

• The subjects will not be included in the study if they are under 18 years
• They have other neurological or orthopedic disorders
• If taking medications (other than analgesics +/- NSAIDs prescribed during a sprain) that may influence the measurements.
• The patients with recurrent sprain of the ankle which was less than 12 months or who require surgery were also excluded.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University Hospital, Geneva: lead

Study Sites (1)

University Hospitals Geneva

Geneva, Switzerland

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Ankle Injuries

Interventions

Physical Therapy Modalities

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Leg Injuries; Wounds and Injuries

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Therapeutics; Rehabilitation

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principle investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 5, 2011
• First Posted: October 10, 2011
• Study Start: March 1, 2010
• Primary Completion: April 1, 2015
• Study Completion: April 1, 2015
• Last Updated: December 22, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-12

Locations

CH (1)