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  • Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Human Factors Engineering

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  • Service members with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) often have cognitive deficits impacting operational effectiveness.
  • Existing rehabilitation methods lack immersive, combat-specific training scenarios for cognitive-motor skills.
  • Virtual reality (VR) offers a potential solution for ecologically relevant cognitive training.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the RehabXR system's ability to assess and train inhibitory control in Special Operations Forces (SOF) personnel with a history of mTBI.
  • To determine if VR-based Go/No-Go training improves cognitive-motor performance in a military context.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the RehabXR system, a portable VR platform with a replica rifle, for a four-week rehabilitation program.
  • Employed the Barricade Wave Defense game module with Go/No-Go stimuli (civilian targets as 'No-Go', enemy targets as 'Go').
  • Quantified inhibitory control using Civilian Hit Rate (commission errors) and Dwell Ratio, analyzing changes via linear regression.

Main Results:

  • Six out of 15 participants exhibited intact inhibitory control, never hitting civilian targets.
  • Among the remaining nine, trends showed decreasing Civilian Hit Rates, indicating improved inhibitory control.
  • Thirteen participants demonstrated a declining Dwell Ratio slope, suggesting reduced attention to civilian stimuli over time.

Conclusions:

  • The RehabXR system effectively integrates cognitive training into immersive, combat-relevant VR scenarios.
  • SOF personnel with mTBI generally showed improved inhibitory control, reduced errors, and better decision-making after the four-week program.
  • RehabXR addresses rehabilitation gaps with portable, multisensory, and military-specific training, though further validation with larger cohorts and standardized scenarios is needed.