Gestural Interaction and Visual Illusion for Lower Limbs’ Neuropathic Pain Treatment

Autor: Eloy Opisso, Dolors Soler, Neus Rodriguez, Mateu Sbert, Jaume Lopez-Carballo
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Adult
Male
0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Biomedical Engineering
Walking
Somatosensory system
image fusion
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Internal Medicine
Humans
Medicine
Statistical analysis
Neurorehabilitation
Aged
Retrospective Studies
neuropathic pain
Leg
Gestures
Transcranial direct-current stimulation
business.industry
Optical illusion
General Neuroscience
Rehabilitation
Virtual Reality
Middle Aged
Home Care Services
Illusions
Clinical Practice
Visual illusion
Treatment Outcome
030104 developmental biology
Lower Extremity
Therapy
Computer-Assisted
Neuropathic pain
human computer interaction
virtual reality
Neuralgia
Clinical staff
Female
business
Algorithms
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
r-IGTP. Repositorio Institucional de Producción Científica del Instituto de Investigación Germans Trias i Pujol
instname
ISSN: 1558-0210
1534-4320
DOI: 10.1109/tnsre.2018.2873593
Popis: Pain caused by a lesion or a disease affecting the somatosensory nervous system is known as Neuropathic pain . It has been shown that neuropathic pain can be treated with the combination of simultaneous transcranial direct current stimulation and the generation of the visual illusion that the patient retains control of the affected limbs. For persons with neuropathic pain in the lower limbs, the visual illusion consists of an image of the patient walking normally. Such a visual illusion has classically been generated by using a physical mirror and a projector. The objective of this paper is to develop and validate a computer-based version of the visual illusion, including Gestural Control. The developed system has been validated in a trial and has been successfully implanted in daily clinical practice in a reference neurorehabilitation hospital. A retrospective statistical analysis shows that the patients treated with the computer-based system reduce their pain level significantly more than the patients treated with the mirror and projector treatment before the introduction of the computer-based version. Furthermore, it also makes possible to bring the therapy to the home of the patients, where the treatment can be self-administered while still being monitored by the clinical staff.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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