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Virtual Reality as an upper Limb Rehabilitation Approach

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Cerebrovascular diseases seriously reduce the quality of life of patients. One of the priority tasks of restoring individual independency, daily living and social activity of patients is to restore basic motor skills such as the reaching, manipulating, and bimanual tasks an coordination. For successful recovery of movement necessary to conduct training in real environment, active participation of the patient, and interactive biofeedback that allows the patient to control the correct performance of motor tasks and adjust their own efforts. Evolution of computer technology gives an opportunity to improve the classical approaches in stroke rehabilitation. To make rehabilitation process met necessary terms, in everyday practice often used high technological devices, such as virtual reality (VR) systems. The technical basis of VR is an artificial three-dimensional environment that is created with computer and displayed on the screen. These technologies allow recreating the necessary training environment for motor skills relearning, as well as to provide interactive biofeedback and make rehabilitation process more intensive. This review present an information about history of VR technology developments, experience of upper limb rehabilitation using VR systems and comparative analysis of different VR based rehabilitation approaches.

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Original Russian Text © A.E. Khizhnikova, A.S. Klochkov, A.M. Kotov-Smolenskiy, N.A. Suponeva, L.A. Chernikova, 2016, published in Annaly Klinicheskoi i Eksperimental’noi Nevrologii, 2016, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 5–12.

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Khizhnikova, A.E., Klochkov, A.S., Kotov-Smolenskiy, A.M. et al. Virtual Reality as an upper Limb Rehabilitation Approach. Hum Physiol 43, 855–862 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119717080035

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