Military service members (SMs) often experience vestibular dysfunction, including symptoms like dizziness and gaze instability, following mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). These impairments compromise their ability to perform military duties, emphasizing the necessity for effective rehabilitation strategies....
Preliminary evidence that VR-based vestibular rehabilitation may alter functional brain connectivity in mTBI patients; too early to change standard vestibular rehab protocols pending larger, controlled trials.
VR-based vestibular rehabilitation is an emerging modality for mTBI populations, and neuroimaging evidence of brain connectivity changes could help validate and refine its use in clinical settings.
- 01RehabXR is a VR system designed specifically for vestibular rehabilitation in military warfighters.
- 02Study population was warfighters with chronic mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).
- 03Treatment produced measurable changes in functional brain connectivity detected via neuroimaging.
- 04Published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, suggesting peer-reviewed scrutiny.
- 05Findings are preliminary; sample size and control conditions are not reported in the abstract.
RehabXR VR vestibular rehabilitation produces changes in functional brain connectivity in warfighters with chronic mTBI.
studypartially supported- PMID
- 42327827
- DOI
- 10.3389/fnhum.2026.1850913.
- Journal
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 4
- Population
- Warfighters with chronic mild traumatic brain injury
- Intervention
- RehabXR virtual reality vestibular rehabilitation system
Primary outcomes
Changes in functional brain connectivity (resting-state or task-based neuroimaging)