NCT05622344NARecruitingAccepts Healthy Volunteers

StableEyes With Active Neurofeedback

Johns Hopkins University

Start Date

8/8/2022

Completion Date

9/30/2026

Summary

The investigators have developed a self-administered rehabilitation tool that incrementally guides the user to increase head motion to mitigate motion sickness and enhance postural recovery following centrifugation or unilateral vestibular nerve deafferentation surgery.

Detailed Description

The rehabilitation device guides users to perform sinusoidal head rotations, matched to a metronome, about the yaw, pitch, and roll axes (60 sec epochs, 5 minutes per axis, 15 min total). The assessment for each axis consists of the number of completed epochs with each epoch requiring head rotations of a different amplitude. Subjects are instructed to begin with an 'easy' amplitude (i.e. small) and increase or decrease amplitude depending on the subject's perception of motion sickness - which is input from 0 (absent motion sick) to 11 (vomit) using a handheld controller. Video-oculography captures eye and head velocity as well as tracks the number of blinks and saccades, metrics that can indicate worsening nausea.

Eligibility Criteria

Age Range: 21 years to 70 years

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Provision of signed and dated informed consent form 2. Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study 3. In good general health as evidenced by medical history or diagnosed with unilateral vestibular schwannoma 4. Willing to adhere to the SWAN and/or vestibular rehabilitation regimen Exclusion Criteria: 1. Current use of anti-nausea medication 2. Presence of cervical spine pathology that limits head motion to \< 30 degrees in the horizontal or vertical plane (i.e. degenerative disc disease, rheumatoid arthritis) 3. Any orthopedic pathology that prevents walking or standing independently (i.e. recent surgery) 4. Legal blindness (20/200 or worse visual acuity) 5. Treatment using a motion sickness investigational drug or other motion sickness behavioral intervention within 30 days

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Traditional Therapy

DEVICE

SWAN

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Conditions

Vestibular DisorderVestibular SchwannomaSpace Motion SicknessMotion Sickness

Locations

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland 21287

United States

Naval Medical Research Unit

Dayton, Ohio 45433

United States