Effect of Exercise Therapy with Nintendo Switch Ring Fit Adventure in Chronic Pain Patients

JRCT ID: jRCT1040220035

Registered date:17/06/2022

Basic Information

• Recruitment status: Recruiting
• Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studied: Chronic pain
• Date of first enrollment: 17/06/2022
• Target sample size: 20
• Study type: Interventional
• Intervention(s): Exergaming (Nintendo Switch "Ring Fit Adventure")

Outcome(s)

• Primary Outcome: Visual Analog Scale (Pain intensity)
• Secondary Outcome: International Physical Activity Questionnaire, Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire, Pain Disability Assessment Scale, Pain Catastrophizing Scale, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, EuroQol5 Dimension, Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

• Age minimum: >= 20age old
• Age maximum: Not applicable

Include criteria

1) Patients with chronic pain for more than 3 months
2) Patients who are 20 years of age or older
3) Patients who have given their written consent to participate in this study after obtaining sufficient informed consent.

Exclude criteria

1) Patients with contraindications to exercise (resting heart rate of 120 bpm or more, diastolic blood pressure of 120 or more, systolic blood pressure of 200 or more, those with exertional angina, those with fresh myocardial infarction within 1 month, those with findings of congestive heart failure, those with significant arrhythmia other than atrial fibrillation, those with palpitations or shortness of breath already before exercise)
2) Patient unable to maintain standing posture for more than 2 minutes without hand support
3) Pregnant or possibly pregnant patients
4) Patients who are deemed inappropriate as research subjects by the principal investigator or research assistants

Related Information

• Primary Sponsor: Ushida Kenta
• Secondary Sponsor: Momosaki Ryo,Yokochi Ayumu,Sakamoto Tadashi