ViTAS Gaming Suite: Virtual Therapy Against Stroke

Dall’Alba, Diego; Dimbwadyo, I.; Piazza, Stefano; Magnabosco, Enrico; Menegozzo, Giovanni; Fiorini, Paolo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_68

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“…Currently, there is a growing interest in the use of technology in the Neurorehabilitation field with the aim of quantifying and generating knowledge about sensorimotor disorders after neurological diseases, understanding that the technology has a high potential for using as therapeutic tools [5]. Thus, at present, there are several works that propose virtual versions of this test, in principle designed for stroke patients and using low-cost technology to allow the patient interaction with the virtual application, such as Microsoft Kinect [6] and Leap Motion Controller [7]. However, no evidence has been found with respect to the analysis of the relation between the virtual developments and the real BBT in Spinal Cord Injury, mostly.…”

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Concurrent Validity of a Virtual Version of Box and Block Test for Patients with Neurological Disorders

Alvarez-Rodríguez¹,

López-Dolado²,

Salas-Monedero³

et al. 2020

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Background: The Box and Block clinical test is a validated and standardized scale for use in the clinical environment that allows the assessment of rough manipulative dexterity. Proposing virtual methods to carry out these assessments is an attempt to eliminate some of the subjectivity that the test may entail depending on the observer and the way in which the patient gives instructions. Applied to the assessment of skills after neurological pathologies, previous experiences in stroke patients have been found. So, this work was centered on the Spinal Cord Injury. Objective: To present the virtual application of the Box and Block scale, as well as details about its design and development for its manipulation based on Leap Motion Controller. Methodology: The relationship between the results obtained in the actual test and in the virtual application in healthy subjects and, mostly, patients with cervical spinal cord injury is analyzed, obtaining a high correlation index between both tests' performance. Results: A high correlation index was obtained between both tests performance, the real and virtual version of the Box and Block Test. Conclusion: This virtual test can serve as an element to evaluate in the future the effectiveness of the RehabHand prototype based on virtual reality applications with a therapeutic and a rehabilitative sense that, manipulated from Leap Motion Controller, allow the improvement of the manipulative dexterity in patients with neurological diseases such as spinal cord injury.

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confidence: 99%