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Immersive Virtual Reality Training Improved Upper Extremity Function In Patients With Spinal Cord Injuries: A Case Series, Anqi Zhang
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Virtual reality (VR) is an emerging treatment tool to engage people in environments that appear and feel similar to real-world objects and events.1 There are various levels of evidence that VR can potentially promote functional activity and neuroplasticity in patients with neurological disorders like spinal cord injury (SCI).2,3
In this case series, we explored the feasibility of using commercially available immersive VR technology as an augmented treatment in the SCI population and compare participant’s suitability for this intervention. Three male SCI participants were recruited in a subacute inpatient rehabilitation facility and participated in VR intervention twice a week …