Recovering from a traumatic incident (eg, a stroke) implies rigorous and demanding
therapies to ensure recovery of the lost capabilities. Due to the lack of short-term visible …

Upper-limb impairments due to stroke can severely affect the quality of life in patients.
Scientific evidence supports that repetitive rehabilitation exercises can improve motor ability …

This chapter presents the games and animations developed for the “StrokeBack” project.
After a detailed introduction—which is quite a detailed overview of the current available …

Recent developments in approaches to stroke rehabilitation include the use of video games
as a mechanism to enhance motivation and compliance to upper limb motor practice. The …

Conventional motor rehabilitation therapies followed by stroke survivors during their
recovery process, are typically intense and involve numerous repetitions of task-specific …

Stroke is the leading cause of long term disability among adults in industrialized nations.
The partial paralysis that stroke patients often experience can make independent living …

In the last few years, Virtual Reality (VR) has shown to be a promising tool in
neurorehabilitation that can be used to diagnose, monitor and induce functional recovery …

Purpose: This case series pilot study evaluates the efficacy of the Core: Tx gaming device on
2 chronic stroke survivors. Methods: Intervention was provided 3 times a week for 3 weeks …

Rehabilitative therapy is usually very expensive and confined to specialized rehabilitation
centers or hospitals, leading to slower recovery times for corresponding patients. Therefore …

On average, two thousand residents in the United States experience a stroke every day.
These circumstances account for $28 billion direct costs annually and given the latest …