Download or read book Virtual Reality for Sensorimotor Rehabilitation of Neurological Health Conditions Across the Lifespan written by Carlos Bandeira de Mello Monteiro and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virtual Reality for Physical and Motor Rehabilitation written by Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While virtual reality (VR) has influenced fields as varied as gaming, archaeology and the visual arts, some of its most promising applications come from the health sector. Particularly encouraging are the many uses of VR in supporting the recovery of motor skills following accident or illness. Virtual Reality for Physical and Motor Rehabilitation reviews two decades of progress and anticipates advances to come. It offers current research on the capacity of VR to evaluate, address, and reduce motor skill limitations and the use of VR to support motor and sensorimotor function, from the most basic to the most sophisticated skill levels. Expert scientists and clinicians explain how the brain organizes motor behavior, relate therapeutic objectives to client goals and differentiate among VR platforms in engaging the production of movement and balance. On the practical side, contributors demonstrate that VR complements existing therapies across various conditions such as neurodegenerative diseases, traumatic brain injury and stroke. Included among the topics: Neuroplasticity and virtual reality. Vision and perception in virtual reality. Sensorimotor recalibration in virtual environments. Rehabilitative applications using VR for residual impairments following stroke. VR reveals mechanisms of balance and locomotor impairments. Applications of VR technologies for childhood disabilities. A resource of great immediate and future utility, Virtual Reality for Physical and Motor Rehabilitation distills a dynamic field to aid the work of neuropsychologists, rehabilitation specialists (including physical, speech, vocational and occupational therapists), and neurologists.
Download or read book Virtual Reality in Health and Rehabilitation written by Christopher M. Hayre and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book focuses on the role and use of VR for healthcare professions in both health and rehabilitation settings. It is also offers future trends of other emerging technology within medicine and allied health professions. This text draws on expertise of leading medical practitioners and researchers who utilise such VR technologies in their practices to enhance patient/service user outcomes. Research and practical evidence is presented with a strong applied emphasis to further enhance the use VR technologies within the community, the hospital and in education environment(s). The book may also be used to influence policymakers on how healthcare delivery is offered.
Download or read book Neurological Rehabilitation E Book written by Darcy Ann Umphred and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 1526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a problem-solving approach based on clinical evidence, Neurological Rehabilitation, 6th Edition covers the therapeutic management of people with functional movement limitations and quality of life issues following a neurological event. It reviews basic theory and covers the latest screening and diagnostic tests, new treatments, and interventions commonly used in today's clinical practice. This edition includes the latest advances in neuroscience, adding new chapters on neuroimaging and clinical tools such as virtual reality, robotics, and gaming. Written by respected clinician and physical therapy expert Darcy Umphred, this classic neurology text provides problem-solving strategies that are key to individualized, effective care. UNIQUE! Emerging topics are covered in detail, including chapters such as Movement Development Across the Lifespan, Health and Wellness: The Beginning of the Paradigm, Documentation, and Cardiopulmonary Interactions. UNIQUE! A section on neurological problems accompanying specific system problems includes hot topics such as poor vision, pelvic floor dysfunction, and pain. A problem-solving approach helps you apply your knowledge to examinations, evaluations, prognoses, and intervention strategies. Evidence-based research sets up best practices, covering topics such as the theory of neurologic rehabilitation, screening and diagnostic tests, treatments and interventions, and the patient's psychosocial concerns Information. Case studies use real-world examples to promote problem-solving skills. Non-traditional approaches to neurological interventions in the Alternative and Complementary Therapies chapter include the movement approach, energy approach, and physical body system approaches therapies. Terminology adheres to the best practices of the APTA as well as other leading physical therapy organizations, following The Guide to Physical Therapy Practice, the Nagi model, and the ICF World Health Model of patient empowerment. Updated illustrations provide current visual references. NEW chapters on imaging and robotics have been added. Updated chapters incorporate the latest advances and the newest information in neuroscience and intervention strategies. Student resources on an Evolve companion website include references with links to MEDLINE and more.
Download or read book Virtual Reality written by Joav Merrick and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, humanity has seen a trend towards the use of virtual reality (VR) technologies for rehabilitation and disability support. This is partly driven not only by the decreasing cost and improved accessibility to technology, but also by the growth in expertise of virtual rehabilitation researchers and practitioners. The benefits of virtual reality are becoming well-established in a number of areas such as pain management, physical rehabilitation and cognitive interventions, and research studies have demonstrated benefits across a range of conditions including Parkinson's disease, cerebral palsy, autism and anxiety disorders. However, the diversity of hardware and software available currently has little standardisation, and patients with disabilities or health conditions often have unique interaction needs which differ from the general population. In this book, the authors explore a number of these issues, presenting recent research findings and technical developments that help them to understand the unique challenges of virtual rehabilitation design and guide future VR system development.
Download or read book Neurological Rehabilitation written by Darcy Ann Umphred, PT, PhD, FAPTA and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 1526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a problem-solving approach based on clinical evidence, Neurological Rehabilitation, 6th Edition covers the therapeutic management of people with functional movement limitations and quality of life issues following a neurological event. It reviews basic theory and covers the latest screening and diagnostic tests, new treatments, and interventions commonly used in today's clinical practice. This edition includes the latest advances in neuroscience, adding new chapters on neuroimaging and clinical tools such as virtual reality, robotics, and gaming. Written by respected clinician and physical therapy expert Darcy Umphred, this classic neurology text provides problem-solving strategies that are key to individualized, effective care. UNIQUE! Emerging topics are covered in detail, including chapters such as Movement Development Across the Lifespan, Health and Wellness: The Beginning of the Paradigm, Documentation, and Cardiopulmonary Interactions. UNIQUE! A section on neurological problems accompanying specific system problems includes hot topics such as poor vision, pelvic floor dysfunction, and pain. A problem-solving approach helps you apply your knowledge to examinations, evaluations, prognoses, and intervention strategies. Evidence-based research sets up best practices, covering topics such as the theory of neurologic rehabilitation, screening and diagnostic tests, treatments and interventions, and the patient's psychosocial concerns Information. Case studies use real-world examples to promote problem-solving skills. Non-traditional approaches to neurological interventions in the Alternative and Complementary Therapies chapter include the movement approach, energy approach, and physical body system approaches therapies. Terminology adheres to the best practices of the APTA as well as other leading physical therapy organizations, following The Guide to Physical Therapy Practice, the Nagi model, and the ICF World Health Model of patient empowerment. Updated illustrations provide current visual references. NEW chapters on imaging and robotics have been added. Updated chapters incorporate the latest advances and the newest information in neuroscience and intervention strategies. Student resources on an Evolve companion website include references with links to MEDLINE and more.
Download or read book Virtual Reality written by Wendy Powell and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, humanity has seen a trend towards the use of virtual reality (VR) technologies for rehabilitation and disability support. This is partly driven not only by the decreasing cost and improved accessibility to technology, but also by the growth in expertise of virtual rehabilitation researchers and practitioners. The benefits of virtual reality are becoming well-established in a number of areas such as pain management, physical rehabilitation and cognitive interventions, and research studies have demonstrated benefits across a range of conditions including Parkinson's disease, cerebral palsy, autism and anxiety disorders. However, the diversity of hardware and software available currently has little standardisation, and patients with disabilities or health conditions often have unique interaction needs which differ from the general population. In this book, the authors explore a number of these issues, presenting recent research findings and technical developments that help them to understand the unique challenges of virtual rehabilitation design and guide future VR system development
Download or read book From Virtual to Reality How Virtual Reality can enhance People s Health and Social Lives written by Eddie Fisher and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2019 in the subject Psychology - Miscellaneous, Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba (Faculty of Social Sciences), course: Social Psychology and Brain Science, language: English, abstract: The application of Virtual Reality (VR) has an increasing capacity to simulate everyday environments. It provides multimodal sensory stimulations that have the ability to influence the human brain to correct neurological and cognitive rehabilitation/behavioral disorders. The purpose of this research is to determine how Virtual Reality (VR) could aid the quest to eliminate or reduce mental disorders/the effects of brain injuries. The outcome suggests that appropriate applications of VR can lead the human brain to improve/reverse neurological activities that lead to mental disorders such as dementia, Alzheimer’s and brain injuries caused by accident or strokes. Cognitive rehabilitation and behavioral therapists would benefit from the application of VR to improve the therapeutic experiences of brain injury or anxiety disorder patients. The coming together of involved parties such as individuals, society, manufacturers of VR technology, neurosurgeons, neurologists and social psychology are paramount to the success of this considered approach to eliminate/reduce various types of mental disorders.
Download or read book Recent Advances on Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Rehabilitation written by Steven Haley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent Advances on Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Rehabilitation reviews two decades of progress and anticipates advances to come. It offers current research on the capacity of VR to evaluate, address, and reduce motor skill limitations and the use of VR to support motor and sensorimotor function, from the most basic to the most sophisticated skill levels. Expert scientists and clinicians explain how the brain organizes motor behavior, relate therapeutic objectives to client goals and differentiate among VR platforms in engaging the production of movement and balance. On the practical side, contributors demonstrate that VR complements existing therapies across various conditions such as neurodegenerative diseases, traumatic brain injury and stroke.
Download or read book Virtual Reality written by Paul Sharkey and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past twenty years, groups of therapists, researchers and engineers have seized the potential of virtual reality (VR) and its associated technologies to work together on designing and testing a great variety of rehabilitation devices and systems with the objective of improving the support for people with disabilities. Virtual reality technologies offer new paradigms for human exploration, understanding and support by providing participants a safe setting in which they can interact and develop goal-oriented activities within functional-virtual environments, especially when they find themselves in situations of cognitive, behavioural or motor disabilities. The solutions built from these technologies reduce patients' limitations of activity and participation by promoting the recovery of capabilities. The current diversification of VR technology can also lead to tools used at home so that the patient can pursue the training that was initiated with the therapist in the care centre. In this book you will find research on the rehabilitation in motor, cognitive and sensorial disorders.
Download or read book Virtual Reality in Neuro psycho physiology written by Giuseppe Riva and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virtual Reality for Psychological and Neurocognitive Interventions written by Albert "Skip" Rizzo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting collection tours virtual reality in both its current therapeutic forms and its potential to transform a wide range of medical and mental health-related fields. Extensive findings track the contributions of VR devices, systems, and methods to accurate assessment, evidence-based and client-centered treatment methods, and—as described in a stimulating discussion of virtual patient technologies—innovative clinical training. Immersive digital technologies are shown enhancing opportunities for patients to react to situations, therapists to process patients’ physiological responses, and scientists to have greater control over test conditions and access to results. Expert coverage details leading-edge applications of VR across a broad spectrum of psychological and neurocognitive conditions, including: Treating anxiety disorders and PTSD. Treating developmental and learning disorders, including Autism Spectrum Disorder, Assessment of and rehabilitation from stroke and traumatic brain injuries. Assessment and treatment of substance abuse. Assessment of deviant sexual interests. Treating obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. Augmenting learning skills for blind persons. Readable and relevant, Virtual Reality for Psychological and Neurocognitive Interventions is an essential idea book for neuropsychologists, rehabilitation specialists (including physical, speech, vocational, and occupational therapists), and neurologists. Researchers across the behavioral and social sciences will find it a roadmap toward new and emerging areas of study.
Download or read book Reaching Thinking Moving written by Marika Demers and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Virtual reality (VR) is a promising intervention for sensorimotor rehabilitation following a stroke. To date, increasing evidence supports the use of VR for paretic upper limb rehabilitation in chronic stroke. Still, evidence is limited in the sub-acute phase of stroke recovery, where most rehabilitation occurs. To address this gap, our research team developed a functional game-based VR intervention designed to remediate arm motor impairments in sub-acute stroke rehabilitation. Before the effectiveness of this VR-based intervention can be tested in a planned intervention study, it is crucial to determine the feasibility of the VR intervention with potential users. Specifically, it is necessary to determine the validity of movements made in a 2D VR environment by comparing motor performance and quality of movement variables of reaching movements made in the two environments. This is important to ensure that movements practiced in the virtual environment match real-life situations and to avoid reinforcing maladaptive compensatory movements. The overall aim of the thesis is to determine the feasibility of using a VR intervention as a therapeutic option for improving upper limb function in individuals who have had a stroke. This thesis is comprised of three manuscripts - one review paper and two experimental studies. The first manuscript is a mixed-methods study aimed at determining users’ satisfaction and safety of incorporating the developed VR intervention as an adjunctive therapeutic option for sub-acute stroke rehabilitation. The main findings were that both clinicians and stroke subjects were highly satisfied with the VR intervention and perceived that it would be useful in clinical practice. The duration and intensity of a single session of VR were well tolerated and no adverse events occurred. The second manuscript is a structured review. The objective was to determine the extent to which upper limb movement quality is assessed by commonly used neurological outcome measures. This manuscript highlighted the need to incorporate the assessment of movement quality into clinical practice and research. The results suggested that most upper limb measures poorly capture how well a person moves, limiting their ability to distinguish recovery from compensation and to adequately track changes over time. Only one measure, the Reaching Performance Scale for Stroke, was found to assess both movement quality and motor performance. The use of observational kinematics with or without motion tracking technology could help to incorporate movement quality into clinical assessment.The third manuscript focuses on the kinematic validity of upper limb functional movements performed in the 2D VR environment, in healthy individuals and in individuals who have had a stroke with and without visual perceptual impairments. For unimanual reaching movements, movement speed, hand orientation when grasping the object and trunk kinematics were unaffected by the environment. However, in the virtual environment, unimanual reaches were less smooth and time to peak velocity was longer. These differences were more pronounced in individuals with stroke. Greater visual perceptual impairments resulted in longer movement duration and slower time to peak velocity in only in the virtual environment. For bilateral reach-to-grasp movements, healthy individuals made generally simultaneous and symmetrical movements in both environments. In contrast, movements in stroke subjects were less symmetrical in the virtual environment. The similarity of endpoint spatial variables and most movement quality variables made in the virtual and the physical environments suggest that using the low-cost 2D virtual environment may be a valid approach for sensorimotor rehabilitation following a stroke. This work supports the feasibility of using a low-cost VR intervention for supplementing stroke rehabilitation in individuals with a large spectrum impairments"--
Download or read book Recent Advances on Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Rehabilitation written by Paul Sharkey and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, there has been a blossoming use of advanced technologies across a wide range of applications in the general area of health care and clinical practice; one such genre is the use of virtual reality technologies for the rehabilitation and support of people with disabilities. This development has been driven by a combination of factors related to increasing clinical need, technological advancements, and developing communities of excellence in the virtual rehabilitation field. In this book, we demonstrate recent advances that have been made across the past two decades of technological development in the area of virtual rehabilitation. The editors highlight the importance of a multidisciplinary and holistic approach to developing virtual rehabilitation systems that meet the needs of patients, therapists and other care givers.
Download or read book Nursing Care Plans written by Marilynn E Doenges and published by F.A. Davis. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here’s the step-by-step guidance you need to develop individualized plans of care while also honing your critical-thinking and analytical skills. You’ll find about 160 care plans in all, covering acute, community, and home-care settings across the life span.
Download or read book Occupational Therapy written by Meral Huri and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book presents the growing occupational therapy knowledge and clinical practice. Occupational therapy, as a health profession, is concerned with preserving well-being through occupations, and its main goal is to help people participate in the activities of daily living. This is achieved by working with people to improve their ability to engage in the occupations they want to engage in or by changing the occupation or the environment to better support their occupational engagement. The topic of the book has been structured on occupational therapy framework and reflects new research, techniques, and occupational therapy trends. This useful book will help students, occupational therapy educators, and professionals to connect occupational therapy theories and the evidence-based clinical practice.
Download or read book Nursing Care Plans written by Marilynn Doenges and published by F.A. Davis. This book was released on 2024-10-03 with total page 2133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The all-in-one care planning resource! Here’s the step-by-step guidance you need to develop individualized plans of care while also honing your critical-thinking and analytical skills. You’ll find about 160 care plans in all, covering acute, community, and home-care settings across the life span. Each plan features… Client assessment database for each medical condition Complete listings of nursing diagnoses organized by priority Diagnostic studies with explanations of the reason for the test and what the results mean Actions and interventions with comprehensive rationales Evidence-based citations Index of nursing diagnoses and their associated disorders
