Advantages of virtual reality in the rehabilitation of balance and gait

Porras, Desidério Cano; Siemonsma, Petra C.; Inzelberg, Rivka; Zeilig, Gabriel; Plotnik, Meir

doi:10.1212/wnl.0000000000005603

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“…21,22 They can now perform a successful operation through virtual data and precisely understand the operation for complex surgery. 23,24 It helps to build confidence, skill without causing any harm. Fig.…”

Section: Different Benefits Of Virtual Reality In the Medical Fieldmentioning

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Virtual reality applications toward medical field

Javaid

Haleem

2020

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health

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Background/objectives: Virtual Reality (VR) is a developing technology, which seems to have extensive applications in different areas such as entertainment, sports, gaming and simulation. In the current scenario, due to Computer-generated imagery and content aim at simulating a real presence through senses capability, it has functional applications in the medical field. So, there are requirements to study its applicability in the medical field. Methods: Relevant papers on VR in the context of the medical field are identified and studied. This paper is a literature review based analysis, where we are trying to find how this technology is going to solve a medicalrelated problem in saving the life of the patient and what are the significant applications. Results: VR provides a simulated environment to interact with the 3D world. Medical professionals are developing and implementing this technology for training, diagnosis and virtual treatment during a critical situation. The study sees that there is good potential for VR in the medical field. We also studied the processes involved in implementing this technology in the medical field. Finally, this paper identifies fourteen major applications of VR in the medical field with description. This technology is helping to create quality healthcare services during complicated cases. Conclusions: VR is used effectively for better surgical technique. It creates detailed virtual models of a patient's anatomy. It helps physicians to effectively move around and view virtual 3D images from different angles. This technology is currently applied in cardiology and Neurology for monitoring and improves patient outcomes. It plays a significant role to help physician related to trauma and other fractures. VR is an emerging technology which can also be used in hospitals and clinics for rehabilitation & training approaches. The applications of this technology are in virtual guides and to fulfil different other virtual goals in the medical field. It seems like an efficient technology to teach body fitness and help create a positive impact on doctors and the patient. This technology leads to creative and exciting discoveries in the medical field.

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Section: Different Benefits Of Virtual Reality In the Medical Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual reality applications toward medical field

Javaid

Haleem

2020

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health

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“…Patients and their family members should be advised on the importance of maintaining adequate motor activity to preserve motor function and prevent the decline in mobility starting soon after the diagnosis. At relatively early stages of the disease, the importance of home exercise routines such as Nordic walking, treadmill training, and balance training consisting of a combination of strengthening and balance exercises may lead to an improvement in self-perceived performance in daily activities and reduce the gradual decline in mobility [83][84][85][86][87][88]. At this stage, dance therapy and martial arts might improve significantly postural control with a decrease in falls [83] and offer the advantage of social engagement, from an ICF perspective.…”

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Postural Control in Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease

Gandolfi¹,

Valè²,

Filippetti³

et al. 2019

Different Areas of Physiotherapy

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Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder in the elderly population. It is a complex, progressive, multisystem disease associated with motor and nonmotor impairments. Postural instability is a crucial component of functional mobility, often overlooked by both clinicians and patients with Parkinson's disease. It is a refractory drug complication for which rehabilitation is the most effective nonpharmacological aid. However, many interventions are based on empirical experience. Improving knowledge on the pathophysiology of postural control disorders is crucial to understand the multifaceted components affected and thus design specific rehabilitation protocols. This chapter intends to offer a comprehensive overview of the current knowledge on this topic starting from the pathophysiology of postural control disorders occurring in various ecological conditions to the most innovative multidisciplinary rehabilitation approaches.

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“…The use of virtual reality (VR) in rehabilitation has been growing exponentially over recent years [1,2]. Clinical applications of VR have been shown to be engaging and motivating [3,4] with promising results suggesting VR interventions are comparable [5] or in some cases superior [6,7] to conventional rehabilitation.…”

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Transfer of motor skill between virtual reality viewed using a head-mounted display and conventional screen environments

Juliano

Liew

2020

J NeuroEngineering Rehabil

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Background: Virtual reality viewed using a head-mounted display (HMD-VR) has the potential to be a useful tool for motor learning and rehabilitation. However, when developing tools for these purposes, it is important to design applications that will effectively transfer to the real world. Therefore, it is essential to understand whether motor skills transfer between HMD-VR and conventional screen-based environments and what factors predict transfer. Methods: We randomized 70 healthy participants into two groups. Both groups trained on a well-established measure of motor skill acquisition, the Sequential Visual Isometric Pinch Task (SVIPT), either in HMD-VR or in a conventional environment (i.e., computer screen). We then tested whether the motor skills transferred from HMD-VR to the computer screen, and vice versa. After the completion of the experiment, participants responded to questions relating to their presence in their respective training environment, age, gender, video game use, and previous HMD-VR experience. Using multivariate and univariate linear regression, we then examined whether any personal factors from the questionnaires predicted individual differences in motor skill transfer between environments. Results: Our results suggest that motor skill acquisition of this task occurs at the same rate in both HMD-VR and conventional screen environments. However, the motor skills acquired in HMD-VR did not transfer to the screen environment. While this decrease in motor skill performance when moving to the screen environment was not significantly predicted by self-reported factors, there were trends for correlations with presence and previous HMD-VR experience. Conversely, motor skills acquired in a conventional screen environment not only transferred but improved in HMD-VR, and this increase in motor skill performance could be predicted by self-reported factors of presence, gender, age and video game use.

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Advantages of virtual reality in the rehabilitation of balance and gait

Abstract: PROSPERO CRD42016042051.

Cited by 240 publications

References 61 publications

Virtual reality applications toward medical field

Virtual reality applications toward medical field

Postural Control in Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease

Transfer of motor skill between virtual reality viewed using a head-mounted display and conventional screen environments

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