Advantages of using 3D virtual reality based training in persons with Parkinson's disease: a parallel study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a slowly progressive neurodegenerative disease. There are mixed reports on success of physiotherapy in patients with PD. Our objective was to investigate the functional improvements, motivation aspects and clinical effectiveness when using immersive 3D virtual reality versus non-immersive 2D exergaming.

Methods

We designed a randomized parallel study with 97 patients, but only 20 eligible participants were randomized in 2 groups; the one using 3D Oculus Rift CV1 and the other using a laptop. Both groups participated in the 10-session 3 weeks training with a pick and place task in the virtual world requiring precise hand movement to manipulate the virtual cubes. The kinematics of the hand was traced with Leap motion controller, motivatio

SUBMITTER: Cikajlo I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6798369 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature