Virtual reality therapy in paediatric rehabilitation

Paediatric Rehabilitation Engineering: From Disability to Possibility

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 291-328

  Weiss, Patrice L Tamar ^a   Weintraub, Naomi ^b   Laufer, Yocheved ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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