Immersive virtual reality-based rehabilitation for subacute stroke: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Few effective treatments improve upper extremity (UE) function after stroke. Immersive virtual reality (imVR) is a novel and promising strategy for stroke UE recovery. We assessed the extent to which imVR-based UE rehabilitation can augment conventional treatment and explored changes in brain functional connectivity (FC) that were related to the rehabilitation.

Methods

An assessor-blinded, parallel-group randomized controlled trial was performed with 40 subjects randomly assigned to either imVR or Control group (1:1 allocation), each receiving rehabilitation 5 times per week for 3 weeks. Subjects in the imVR received both imVR and conventional rehabilitation, while those in the Control received conventional rehabilitation only. Our primary and secondary outcomes we

SUBMITTER: Huang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10896795 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature