Virtual reality for gait rehabilitation - promises, proofs and preferences

Powell, Wendy; Powell, Vaughan; Simmonds, Maureen J.

doi:10.1145/2674396.2674450

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“…Running exacerbates these challenges and renders simple solutions such as handlebars infeasible, while jumping on a treadmill is very dangerous even without wearing a HMD [56]. Treadmills for walking in VR are bespoke systems that are not typically available to consumers; they limit a player's range of motion making vigorous exercise difficult, can take up considerable space, and would add markedly to the cost of an exergame setup [4,91,107]. Walking on a treadmill in VR can reduce VR sickness [53]; however, it leads to distortions in the perception of movement [90] and different gait characteristics compared to walking in the real world [93].…”

Section: Augmenting Walking Running and Jumping In Vrmentioning

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Virtual Performance Augmentation in an Immersive Jump & Run Exergame

Ioannou

Archard

O’Neill

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Section: Augmenting Walking Running and Jumping In Vrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual Performance Augmentation in an Immersive Jump & Run Exergame

Ioannou

Archard

O’Neill

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Unfortunately, adherence to exercise-based interventions for musculoskeletal pain is often poor 18 . Poor adherence is associated with high co-morbidities, psychological factors, pain, and boredom while performing prescribed exercise [19][20][21] .…”

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Physiotherapist beliefs and perspectives on virtual reality–supported rehabilitation for the assessment and management of musculoskeletal shoulder pain: a focus group study protocol

et al. 2021

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Shoulder pain accounts for a large proportion of musculoskeletal disorders and years lived with disability. Musculoskeletal shoulder pain is challenging to manage and while research evidence suggests that exercise should be a cornerstone of shoulder pain rehabilitation, the exact type and dosage of exercise is unclear. Adherence is a barrier to successful outcomes with exercise-based management of musculoskeletal pain, especially for those with co-morbidities, high pain levels and reported boredom associated with competing prescribed exercise. Virtual reality (VR) may offer an effective platform for rehabilitation of musculoskeletal shoulder pain. VR has been shown to be effective for management of acute and chronic pain conditions, for delivering education around various health conditions, and for supporting rehabilitation of neurological conditions. Therefore, it is possible that VR may have a role in the delivery of exercise and education for individuals with musculoskeletal shoulder pain. VR intervention design should involve several steps and begin with establishing early acceptability from users as to the suitability of the technology in clinical practice as well as potential barriers and facilitators to using the technology successfully. This study will therefore aim to explore physiotherapists beliefs and perspectives of immersive VR as a platform for assessment and rehabilitation in patients with musculoskeletal shoulder pain. Further, this study will inform the development of a VR intervention for use in the rehabilitation of musculoskeletal shoulder pain. A series of online focus groups will be conducted with physiotherapists in Ireland using a qualitative descriptive approach to data analysis. A six-phase process of data analysis will be carried out to identify important patterns and themes within the data. The current study will be the first to explore clinician’s perspectives on the role of VR in musculoskeletal practice.

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“…Future work may seek to explore the utility of path tortuosity in other VR paradigms such as education, 46,47 interpersonal interaction, 48 and rehabilitation. 49 Given the capacity for VR and other emerging technologies to collect unique behavioral data such as translational movement, future work should continue to explore metrics that can be derived from such data, and that have the potential to elucidate the implicit aspects of complicated behavioral processes.…”

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Path Tortuosity in Virtual Reality: A Novel Approach for Quantifying Behavioral Process in a Food Choice Context

Yaremych

Kistler

Trivedi

et al. 2019

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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There is a pressing need to better understand how parents make feeding decisions for their children, but extant measures focus primarily on outcomes rather than examining the process of food choice as it unfolds. This exploratory study examined parents' translational movement as they moved throughout a virtual reality-based buffet restaurant to select a lunch for their child. Our aim was to explore whether translational movement would be related to cognitive and affective variables that underlie motivation, effort, and ultimate choices within food decision-making contexts (e.g., guilt, self-efficacy). Movement data were quantified in terms of path tortuosity: the degree of straightness of one's path while traveling through a space. Greater path tortuosity predicted a reduction in parents' guilt about their child feeding, above and beyond actual food chosen. Results suggest path tortuosity serves as an implicit measure of effort put forth by parents throughout the food decision-making process. Future work should continue to explore the utility of novel metrics that can be obtained from unique data sources, such as location tracking, for elucidating complicated behavioral processes such as food choice.

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Virtual reality for gait rehabilitation - promises, proofs and preferences

Cited by 13 publications

References 64 publications

Virtual Performance Augmentation in an Immersive Jump & Run Exergame

Virtual Performance Augmentation in an Immersive Jump & Run Exergame

Physiotherapist beliefs and perspectives on virtual reality–supported rehabilitation for the assessment and management of musculoskeletal shoulder pain: a focus group study protocol

Path Tortuosity in Virtual Reality: A Novel Approach for Quantifying Behavioral Process in a Food Choice Context

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