Home-based immersive virtual reality physical rehabilitation in paediatric patients for upper limb motor impairment: a feasibility study.

ABSTRACT: Upper limb motor impairment (ULMI) rehabilitation is a long-term, demanding and challenging process to recover motor functionality. Children and adolescents may be limited in daily life activities due to reduced functions such as decreased joint movement or muscle weakness. Home-based therapy with Immersive Virtual Reality can offer greater accessibility, delivery and early rehabilitation to significantly optimise functional outcomes and quality of life. This feasibility study aimed to explore the perceptions and impacts of an immersive and interactive VR scenario suitable for ULMI rehabilitation for children at home. It was analysed using mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) and from a multidirectional perspective (patients, clinicians and family members). Amongst the main results

SUBMITTER: Phelan I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9840166 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature