Abstract
With aging, cerebrovascular diseases can occur more often. Stroke cases involve hemiplegia, which causes difficulties in performing activities of daily living. Existing rehabilitation treatments are based on the subjective evaluation of the therapist as the need for non-contact care arises; it is necessary to develop a system that can self-rehabilitate and offer objective analysis. Therefore, we developed rehabilitation tools that enable self-rehabilitation exercises in a virtual space based on haptics. Thirty adults without neurological damage were trained five times in a virtual environment, and the time, number of collisions, and coordinates were digitized and stored in real time. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) of the time and distance similarity changes revealed that as the number of rounds increased, no changes or increases occurred (p ≥ 0.05), and the collisions and paths were stable as the training progressed (p < 0.05). ANOVA showed a high correlation (0.90) with a decrease in the number of crashes and time required. It was meaningful to users when performing rehabilitation training more than four times and significantly impacted the analysis. This study analyzed the upper limb and cognitive rehabilitation of able-boded people in three-dimensional space in a virtual environment; the performance difficulty could be controlled through variations in rehabilitation models.
Highlights
Paralysis is a state in which the nerves innervating the muscles lose their function, without changes in the form, resulting in limb numbness or the inability to move
Haptic is a coaching device used for virtual reality o rehabilitation is used detected by a sensor
Based on the double-curved shoulder arc form, which is rehabilitation tool to check an active movement, we developed a tool to analyze self-rehabilitation exercise through haptic device and rehabilitation change processes
Summary
Paralysis is a state in which the nerves innervating the muscles lose their function, without changes in the form, resulting in limb numbness or the inability to move. Paralysis can be divided into sensory paralysis and motor paralysis, which occur when there is a disorder in any part of the exercise path from the motor center of the brain to the peripheral nerve and muscle fiber. Upper limb paralysis can result from different causes of brain damage, of which stroke is the most common [1]. Typical clinical symptoms after stroke include hemiplegia and problems with activities of daily living (ADLs) [6,7]. Minor dysfunction limits one’s daily life, negatively affecting the quality of life with after-effects, including depression [8]. The recovery from these effects is slow and difficult
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