Virtual rehabilitation via Nintendo Wii® and conventional physical therapy effectively treat post-stroke hemiparetic patients

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 299-305

  Da Silva Ribeiro, Nildo Manoel ^a,b   Dominguez Ferraz, Daniel ^b   Pedreira, Érika ^c   Pinheiro, Ígor ^d   Da Silva Pinto, Ana Cláudia ^d   Gomes Neto, Mansueto ^b   Dos Santos, Luan Rafael Aguiar ^b   Guimarães Pozzato, Michele Gea ^a   Silva Pinho, Ricardo ^a   Rodrigues Masruha, Marcelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^c Universidade Catolica de Salvador   (Brazil)

^d Charitable Works Foundation of Sister Dulce   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hemiparesis; Stroke; Virtual reality exposure therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL PHYSICAL THERAPY; FEMALE; FUGL MEYER SCALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SHORT FORM 36; STROKE PATIENT; TELEREHABILITATION; THERAPY EFFECT; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DEVICES; KINESIOTHERAPY; PARESIS; PROCEDURES; RECREATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPY;

EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO GAMES; VIRTUAL REALITY EXPOSURE THERAPY;

EID: 84943360223     PISSN: 10749357     EISSN: 19455119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1074935714Z.0000000017     Document Type: Article

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