Abstract
Cervical Spinal Cord injury (SCI) is a neurological disease that produces, as a consequence, impairments of the upper limb function. This paper illustrates a virtual reality platform based on three serious games for upper limb rehabilitation with electromyography monitoring, providing force feedback to the patient. In the rehabilitation process proposed, haptic feedback was provided to the patients to strength the arm muscles by means of the Novint Falcon device. This end-effector device was used to manipulate the serious games. During the therapy performance, the system recorded electromyography signals from the patient’s arm muscles, which may be used to monitor muscle contraction. The work presented a virtual reality system developed for spinal cord-injured patients. Each virtual reality environment could be modified in strength and duration according to the patients’ needs and was implemented for recording quantitative data about the motor performance. The platform was validated as a proof of concept in cervical spinal cord-injured patients. Results showed that this rehabilitation platform could be used for obtaining objective information in relation to motor control characteristics.
Highlights
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) is one of the most important neurological diseases that produce deficiencies in the field of physical disability [1]
The results in relation to the motor performance in each variable within the serious games are shown in Tables 3 and 4
The number of peaks obtained in the analysis shows that SCI patients perform more accelerations segmentation of the movement and more peaks appeared in the speed profile
Summary
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) is one of the most important neurological diseases that produce deficiencies in the field of physical disability [1]. It is often a catastrophic condition requiring chronic care. Despite an enormous amount of research in SCI, the neurological prognosis for a patient with severe SCI remains dismal. Life expectancy after such an injury is markedly reduced due to complications proportional to the severity of injury or remaining neurological functions. Rehabilitation services and ongoing health maintenance are essential for the prevention and management of these conditions [3]
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