Purpose To investigate the acceptability and user experience of an in-hospital endurance
training program based on the Virtual Park, a semi-immersive Virtual Reality (VR) system for …

Purpose This study compared the effects of inpatient-based rehabilitation program of
patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using non-immersive virtual …

Highlights What are the main findings? VR programs could be used to augment the
therapeutic effect of PR in COPD patients. VR rehabilitation programs could be used for …

OBJECTIVE: The present pilot study tested the use of a virtual game system (VGS) for
exercise training in patients with moderate to very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary …

Physical exercise is one of the main components of rehabilitation programs designed for
patients with chronic respiratory diseases. Endurance exercise training, in the form of cycling …

Barriers to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR)(eg, finances, mobility, and lack of awareness about
the benefits of PR). Reducing these barriers by providing COPD patients with convenient …

Purpose To assess the feasibility, safety, and effectiveness of a VIrtual PulmonAry
Rehabilitation (VIPAR) program in a real-world setting. Patients and methods Twenty-one …

Background The uptake of traditional pulmonary rehabilitation classes by patients with
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is poor because of personal factors that …

The purpose of this study is to assess the benefits of Virtual Reality (VR) as a form of self-
managed Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary …

Background Respiratory diseases impose an immense health burden worldwide and affect
millions of people on a global scale. Reduction of exercise tolerance poses a huge health …