Go virtual to get real: virtual reality as a resource for spinal cord treatment

E Leemhuis, RM Esposito, L De Gennaro… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Increasingly, refined virtual reality (VR) techniques allow for the simultaneous and coherent
stimulation of multiple sensory and motor domains. In some clinical interventions, such as …

A therapeutic matrix: virtual reality as a clinical tool for spinal cord injury-induced neuropathic pain

E Leemhuis, V Giuffrida, AM Giannini, M Pazzaglia - Brain sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Neuropathic pain (NP) is a chronic, debilitating, and resistant form of pain. The onset rate of
NP following spinal cord injuries (SCI) is high and may reduce the quality of life more than …

Virtual reality–augmented neurorehabilitation improves motor function and reduces neuropathic pain in patients with incomplete spinal cord injury

M Villiger, D Bohli, D Kiper, P Pyk… - … and neural repair, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Background. Neurorehabilitation interventions to improve lower limb function and
neuropathic pain have had limited success in people with chronic, incomplete spinal cord …

Efficacy of virtual reality rehabilitation after spinal cord injury: a systematic review

AVL De Araújo, JFO Neiva… - BioMed research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Spinal cord injury (SCI) is often associated with long‐term impairments related
to functional limitations in the sensorimotor system. The use of virtual reality (VR) technology …

Virtual reality applications in neurorehabilitation: Current panorama and challenges

F Nieto-Escamez, I Cortés-Pérez, E Obrero-Gaitán… - Brain sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Central Nervous System Diseases are a leading cause of disability worldwide, posing
significant social and economic burdens for patients, their families, caregivers, and society …

[HTML][HTML] Virtual reality neurorehabilitation for mobility in spinal cord injury: a structured review

E Yeo, B Chau, B Chi, DE Ruckle… - Innovations in clinical …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective: The goal of this review was to evaluate the evidence regarding the use of virtual
reality (VR) therapy for improvement of mobility in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) …

Virtual reality

M Ortiz-Catalan, S Nijenhuis, K Ambrosch… - Emerging therapies in …, 2014 - Springer
This chapter provides an overview on the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in rehabilitation with
respect to recent neuroscience and physical therapy reviews of individuals with motor …

Sensorimotor training in virtual reality: a review

SV Adamovich, GG Fluet, E Tunik… - …, 2009 - content.iospress.com
Recent experimental evidence suggests that rapid advancement of virtualreality (VR)
technologies has great potential for the development of novelstrategies for sensorimotor …

Virtual reality as a vehicle to empower motor-cognitive neurorehabilitation

D Perez-Marcos, M Bieler-Aeschlimann… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In this paper, we advocate the combination of four key ingredients that we believe are
necessary to design long-lasting effective treatments for neurorehabilitation:(i) motor …

Virtual reality in paraplegia: a VR-enhanced orthopaedic appliance for walking and rehabilitation

G Riva - Virtual Environments in Clinical Psychology and …, 1998 - ebooks.iospress.nl
Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) have a profound physical, social and emotional cost to patients
and their families. Obviously SCIs severely disrupt normal patterns of interaction with the …