Virtual reality for the upper limb motor training in stroke: A case report

Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 257-260

  Trotti, Claudio ^a   Menegoni, Francesco ^a   Baudo, Silvia ^a   Bigoni, Matteo ^a   Galli, Manuela ^b   Mauro, Alessandro ^a,c  

^a ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Kinematics; Rehabilitation; Stroke; Upper limbs; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM EXERCISE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PHYSIOTHERAPY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; REHABILITATION CARE; STROKE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRTUAL REALITY; ARM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVALESCENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; UPPER EXTREMITY;

E-LEARNING; KINEMATICS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY;

CASE REPORTS; MOTOR TRAININGS; QUANTITATIVE PARAMETERS; STROKE; STROKE PATIENTS; UPPER LIMBS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 71749088637     PISSN: 15548716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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