Virtual Reality Technology Combined with Comprehensive Pulmonary Rehabilitation on Patients with Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Abstract

With the popularization of medical knowledge and the development of medical technology, people pay more and more attention to COPD. This paper mainly studies the effect of virtual reality technology combined with comprehensive lung rehabilitation on patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 60 patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were selected to collect their general information, such as name, gender, and age. They were divided into the experimental group and control group, 30 patients in each group. The experimental group was treated with virtual reality technology combined with lung rehabilitation, while the control group was treated with conventional rehabilitation. Patients in both groups needed medication and participated in a 30-minute disease description activity once a week. In addition, patients in the control group should walk for 20 minutes every day to monitor muscle fatigue. Breathing exercises are also carried out regularly. Patients are instructed to use their lips and abdomen for 5 minutes each time. The respiratory rate was 7 beats per minute. In addition to the routine training of the control group, the experimental group will also train the simulated bicycle for 20 minutes, which will be automatically saved on the computer after the training. After the experiment, the muscle function and motor ability of the two groups were evaluated, and the results were statistically analyzed. The total self-efficacy scores of patients before and after telemedicine technical support increased significantly (2.15 ± 0.21 before telemedicine technical support, 2.39 ± 0.20 after telemedicine technical support), and the difference was statistically significant ( P < 0.05 ). The results show that the application of virtual reality technology can improve the rehabilitation belief of patients and strengthen the training effect.

Benefits from Incorporating Virtual Reality in Pulmonary Rehabilitation of COPD Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

“…All included studies (Table 2) had added a VR component to usual PR, which was the main rehabilitation strategy for COPD patients. The technological equipment varied across the studies from the Microsoft Xbox Kinect [27,28] and Nintendo Wii Fit [24,25] to head-mounted displays [15,26]. The Xbox 360 console was used along with the Kinect motion sensor in order to detect and follow the participants' movements.…”

Virtual reality as an adjunct to pulmonary rehabilitation of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Dyspnoea will be primarily assessed using the Medical Research Council scale and the Borg scale 24 25. Quality of life will be evaluated through various instruments, including the capacity index (BODE), St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire, COPD Assessment Test, or other validated tools 26–28. Physical function in patients with COPD will be assessed using the Senior Fitness Test (formerly referred to as the Functional Fitness Test or Fullerton test) 29.…”

Effects of virtual reality-based pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A meta-analysis

“…FEV1% predicted. A total of 4 studies [27,32,33,37] reported FEV1 as an outcome. Due to the obvious heterogeneity (I 2 = 64%, P = .0039), a random-effect model was adopted.…”

“…Moreover, 5 articles were excluded due to did not meet the inclusion criteria. Finally, a total of 11 studies [26,27,[31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] were included in the meta-analysis (Fig. 1).…”

“…[18,25] Limited evidence suggests that VR-based pulmonary rehabilitation can improve lung function, exercise endurance, and dyspnea in COPD patients. [26][27][28] However, most studies on the effect of VR technology on COPD are mostly small sample sizes, which makes it difficult to draw reliable conclusions. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of VR-based pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD patients.…”