An Interactive Upper-Limb Post-Stroke Rehabilitation System Integrating BCI-based Attention Monitoring and Virtual Reality Feedback

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bor-Shing Lin ◽  
Hsiu-Chi Hsu ◽  
Gene Eu Jan ◽  
Jean-Lon Chen
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Upper Limb ◽  
Stroke Rehabilitation ◽  
Post Stroke ◽  
Rehabilitation System

Collaboration of Rehabilitation Robot With Virtual Reality Development Engine

2018 ◽  
pp. 1377-1392
Author(s):  
Yogendra Patil ◽  
Guilherme Galdino Siqueira ◽  
Iara Brandao ◽  
Fei Hu
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
User Interface ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Stroke Rehabilitation ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Rehabilitation Robot ◽  
Rehabilitation Process ◽  
Post Stroke ◽  
Rehabilitation System ◽  
Rehabilitation Exercises

Stroke rehabilitation techniques have gathered an immense attention due to the addition of virtual reality environment for rehabilitation purposes. Current techniques involve ideas such as imitating various stroke rehabilitation exercises in virtual world. This makes rehabilitation process more attractive as compared to conventional methods and motivates the patient to continue the therapy. However, most of the virtual reality based stroke rehabilitation studies focus on patient performing sedentary rehabilitation exercises. In this chapter, we introduce our virtual reality based post stroke rehabilitation system that allows a post stroke patient to perform dynamic exercises. With the introduction of our system, we hope to increase post stroke patient's ability to perform their daily routine exercises independently. Our discussion in this chapter is mainly centered around collaboration of rehabilitation system with virtual reality software. We also detail the design process of our modern user interface for collecting useful data during rehabilitation. A simple experiment is carried out to validate the visibility of our system.

scholarly journals Requirements Elicitation and Prototyping of a Fully Immersive Virtual Reality Gaming System for Upper Limb Stroke Rehabilitation in Saudi Arabia

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maram AlMousa ◽  
Hend S. Al-Khalifa ◽  
Hana AlSobayel
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Upper Limb ◽  
Stroke Rehabilitation ◽  
Requirements Elicitation ◽  
Stroke Survivors ◽  
Immersive Virtual Reality ◽  
Stroke Patients ◽  
Rehabilitation System

Stroke rehabilitation plays an important role in recovering the lifestyle of stroke survivors. Although existing research proved the effectiveness and engagement of nonimmersive virtual reality- (VR-) based rehabilitation systems, limited research is available on the applicability of fully immersive VR-based rehabilitation systems. In this paper, we present the elicited requirements of a fully immersive VR-based rehabilitation system that will be designed for domestic upper limb stroke patients; we will also provide an initial conceptual prototype of the proposed system.

Serious Games Design Principles Using Virtual Reality to Gamify Upper Limb Stroke Rehabilitation

2022 ◽  
pp. 235-261
Author(s):  
Robert Herne ◽  
Mohd Fairuz Shiratuddin ◽  
Shri Rai ◽  
David Blacker
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Upper Limb ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Stroke Rehabilitation ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Stroke Survivors ◽  
Upper Limb Rehabilitation ◽  
Post Stroke ◽  
Limb Rehabilitation

Stroke is a debilitating condition that impairs one's ability to live independently while also greatly decreasing one's quality of life. For these reasons, stroke rehabilitation is important. Engagement is a crucial part of rehabilitation, increasing a stroke survivor's recovery rate and the positive outcomes of their rehabilitation. For this reason, virtual reality (VR) has been widely used to gamify stroke rehabilitation to support engagement. Given that VR and the serious games that form its basis may not necessarily be engaging in themselves, ensuring that their design is engaging is important. This chapter discusses 39 principles that may be useful for engaging stroke survivors with VR-based rehabilitation post-stroke. This chapter then discusses a subset of the game design principles that are likely to engage stroke survivors with VR designed for upper limb rehabilitation post-stroke.

Collaboration of Rehabilitation Robot with Virtual Reality Development Engine

2016 ◽  
pp. 13-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yogendra Patil ◽  
Guilherme Galdino Siqueira ◽  
Iara Brandao ◽  
Fei Hu
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
User Interface ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Stroke Rehabilitation ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Rehabilitation Robot ◽  
Rehabilitation Process ◽  
Post Stroke ◽  
Rehabilitation System ◽  
Rehabilitation Exercises

Stroke rehabilitation techniques have gathered an immense attention due to the addition of virtual reality environment for rehabilitation purposes. Current techniques involve ideas such as imitating various stroke rehabilitation exercises in virtual world. This makes rehabilitation process more attractive as compared to conventional methods and motivates the patient to continue the therapy. However, most of the virtual reality based stroke rehabilitation studies focus on patient performing sedentary rehabilitation exercises. In this chapter, we introduce our virtual reality based post stroke rehabilitation system that allows a post stroke patient to perform dynamic exercises. With the introduction of our system, we hope to increase post stroke patient's ability to perform their daily routine exercises independently. Our discussion in this chapter is mainly centered around collaboration of rehabilitation system with virtual reality software. We also detail the design process of our modern user interface for collecting useful data during rehabilitation. A simple experiment is carried out to validate the visibility of our system.

scholarly journals Computer vision devices for tracking gross upper limb movements in post-stroke rehabilitation

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. e57910616143
Author(s):  
Júlia Tannús de Souza ◽  
Eduardo Lázaro Martins Naves ◽  
Angela Abreu Rosa de Sá
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Upper Limb ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Stroke Rehabilitation ◽  
Motion Tracking ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Upper Limb Rehabilitation ◽  
Stroke Treatment ◽  
Post Stroke ◽  
Tracking Devices

Games and virtual reality are new concepts applied to upper limb rehabilitation after stroke. To perform upper limb physiotherapy rehabilitation and restore motor skills through virtual reality resources it is necessary to use an arm tracker, which would be the input of the video game. However, one of the main issues when starting a post-stroke rehabilitation game project is choosing the most suitable gross upper limb motion tracking device. Thus, this article aims to explore the gross upper limb motion tracking devices most commonly used in the scientific literature. To carry out this research, literature searches in English were conducted up to December 2020 in the ACM, PubMed and IEEE Xplore databases. We have selected a total of ninety-five (95) articles. In these studies, we identified the most used gross upper limb motion devices and we classified them into 5 different categories: RGB-D skeletal tracking, RGB object tracking, IR marker tracking, LeapMotion and RGB markerless body tracking. We found that most studies (52%) used RGB-D skeletal tracking. In addition, we found fifteen (15) different commercial systems or tracking devices and the most used was Kinect® (47% of all studies). However, it was not possible to generalize whether one device is better than the other. Although the amount of research in this area has increased significantly in recent years, additional studies are still needed to quantify the potential of the use of gross upper limb motion tracking devices in rehabilitation with games in post-stroke treatment.

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