Preserving Ability Through Virtual Exercise (PAVE)

The commercial virtual reality app that will be used for the intervention, Supernatural, provides participants a trainer as they use their arms and legs (e.g., seated knee strikes) to smash targets to 500+ musical tracks. In this manner, this study employs fun as a motivator for exercise commencement and adherence while hospitalized. The research assistant will implement the intervention using the four-step approach including: (1) patient mobility screen, (2) orientation to the technology and intervention, (3) goal setting for physical activity, and (4) ongoing assessment, adaptation, and motivation.

"Education control participants will receive and physical activity education using the NIH Get Fit for Life booklet."