Monitoring of Visuomotor Coordination in Healthy Subjects and Patients with Stroke and Parkinson’s Disease: An Application Study Using the PABLOR-Device

Autor: Sebastian J, Paul F. M. J. Verschure, er Kammerzell, Alex, David Ram, Melina Samartzi, Lars Wojtecki, Rüdiger J. Seitz
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: International Journal of Neurorehabilitation.
ISSN: 2376-0281
Popis: Background: Visuomotor performance can be improved by repetitive training on consecutive days. The aim of this study was to assess the training effect of visuomotor tracking in healthy subjects and hemiparetic patients with stroke and in moderately impaired patients with Parkinson’s disease. Methods: 39 healthy right-handed subjects, 15 patients after acute cerebral artery stroke, and 15 patients with mid-stage Parkinson’s disease were trained with the commercially available, multifunctional PABLOR-device. This handhold device is equipped with force and acceleration sensors and connected to a personal computer for on-line data display and data storage. On three consecutive days the subjects were trained to navigate a target through obstacles in a virtual reality environment. Performance was assessed by modulation of force production and rotation of the hand in a visuomotor tracking paradigm using the PABLOR-device. Results: The main findings were that training of the right dominant hand improved visuomotor coordination of hand rotation movements in both hands in the healthy subjects (p=0.0015). Training of the right affected hand improved visuomotor coordination of hand rotation movements in either patient group (p=0.026). In contrast, training improved the visuomotor coordination of force tracking of the dominant hand only in the healthy subjects (p
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