Evidence-based design and development of a VR-based treadmill system for gait research and rehabilitation of patients with Parkinson's disease.

Autor: Pérez-Sanpablo AI; Laboratorio de Análisis de Movimiento Humano. Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación., González-Mendoza A, Quiñones-Uriostegui I, Rodríguez-Reyes G, Núñez-Carrera L, Hernández-Arenas C, Boll-Woehrlen MC, Alessi Montero A
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Revista de investigacion clinica; organo del Hospital de Enfermedades de la Nutricion [Rev Invest Clin] 2014 Jul; Vol. 66 Suppl 1, pp. S39-47.
Abstrakt: Virtual reality (VR) in neurorehabilitation allows to reduce patient's risk and allows him to learn on a faster way. Up to now VR has been used in patients with Parkinson disease (PD) as a research tool and none of the developed systems are used in clinical practice. The goal of this project is to develop a VR-based system for gait therapy, and gait research of patients with PD designed based on published evidence. The developed system uses a digital camera to measure spatiotemporal gait parameters. The software was developed in C#, using Open-Source libraries that facilitates VR programming. The system has potential uses in clinical and research settings.
Databáze: MEDLINE