10 years experience in the application of the Reinforced Feedback in Virtual Environment (RFVE) for neurorehabilitation: Preliminary results from a retrospective analysis in stroke patients

Author

Andrea, Turolla ; Michela, Agostini ; Carla, Zucconi ; Pawel, Kiper ; Andrea, Vendramin ; Paolo, Tonin ; Dam, Mauro ; Lamberto, Piron ; Laura, Ventura ; Michela, Dalmartello

Author_Institution

Laboratory of Kinematics and Robotics, Fondazione IRCCS Ospedale San Camillo, Venezia, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

27-29 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Many applications of virtual reality appeared in different fields of the rehabilitation medicine. Nevertheless poor evidences of their effectiveness still exist. The aim of this original paper was to present the results of a retrospective analysis of 10 years of a non-immersive VR system application, for the treatment of the motor upper limb impairment in stroke patients. We observed a significant improvement in the motor outcomes, compared to standard rehabilitation, nevertheless a translation of the same effect on harder outcome such as independence wasn´t observed.

Keywords

Joints; Kinematics; Lesions; Medical treatment; Robots; Virtual environments; Stroke; Upper limb; non-immersive Virtual Reality; outcomes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zurich, Switzerland

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-475-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-61284-473-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICVR.2011.5971863

Filename

5971863