Use of virtual reality in gait recovery among post stroke patients-a systematic literature review

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 357-362

  Moreira, Marcela Cavalcanti ^a   De Amorim Lima, Anne Michelle ^b   Ferraz, Karla Monica ^b   Benedetti Rodrigues, Marco Aurélio ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA INTEGRAL PROF FERNANDO FIGUEIRA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gait; Hemiparetic; Physical therapy; Stroke; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONVALESCENCE; GAIT; HUMAN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); WALKING;

GAIT; HUMANS; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WALKING;

EID: 84883575939     PISSN: 17483107     EISSN: 17483115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17483107.2012.749428     Document Type: Article

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