IEEE trans: Application of immersive virtual reality technology in the rehabilitation of upper limbs of patients with hemiplegia and non-hemiplegia

Also known as hemiplegia hemiplegia, it refers to the lower limb on the same side, movement disorders of the lower facial muscles and tongue, acute cerebral vascular common symptoms of the disease.

With the emergence of commercial immersive virtual reality (VR) technologies, such as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive (both released in early 2016) and other virtual reality (VR) technologies with motion tracking control functions need to further explore the use of VR in active games.

The main purpose of this research is to explore the feasibility of an immersive virtual reality environment that manipulates visual feedback (ie, EA) during bimanual movement and can be used in home rehabilitation systems.

A total of 17 participants were recruited: 12 adolescents aged 13-21 years (17 years) and 5 participants who were clinically diagnosed with unilateral or hemiplegic cerebral palsy.

Experimental block diagram

Participants were asked to use different two-handed interactive object models to perform the arrival task.

experimental design

In the typical developmental group, after receiving EA training, visual asymmetry was significantly improved compared with not receiving EA training.

The retention of exercise adaptation and final learning should also be tested through long-term research.

LC Shum, BA Valdés, NJ Hodges and HFM Van der Loos, " Error Augmentation in Immersive Virtual Reality for Bimanual Upper-Limb Rehabilitation in Individuals With and Without Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy, " inIEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering , vol.