Title :
Development of a novel therapy in virtual motor rehabilitation after severe Guillain-Barré symptomatology
Author :
Albiol-Perez, Sergio ; Gil-Gomez, Jose-Antonio ; Forcano-Garcfa, Mercedes ; MufiozTomas, Ma Teresa ; Manzano-Hernandez, Pilar ; SolsonaHernandez, Sofia
Author_Institution :
Dipt. de Inf. e Ingenierfa de Sist., Univ. de Zaragoza, Teruel, Spain
Abstract :
Guillain-Barre syndrome is an inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy where the etiology is not clear. Some of the most important problems in this type of syndrome are balance and gait disorders. Traditional rehabilitation includes exercises such as proper limb positioning, posture, orthotics, and activities that patients carry out in daily living (ADL). Novel therapies based on Virtual Motor Rehabilitation (VMR) are alternative treatments to increase the patient´s motor recovery. In this paper, we proposed a virtual rehabilitation system (ABAR) to increase the results in static and dynamic balance for Guillain-Barre patients. The results of the clinical test show that the use of the ABAR system improves balance, postural control, and gait in Guillain-Barre patients.
Keywords :
gait analysis; medical computing; medical disorders; patient treatment; virtual reality; ABAR system; ADL; Guillain-Barre patient; Guillain-Barre syndrome; VMR; balance disorder; clinical test; daily living; dynamic balance; etiology; exercise; gait disorder; inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy; limb positioning; orthotics; patient motor recovery; patient treatment; postural control; posture; severe Guillain-Barre symptomatology; static balance; therapies; virtual motor rehabilitation; virtual rehabilitation system; Hospitals; Instruments; Subspace constraints; Balance; Balance Control; Gait; Guillain Barre; Virtual Motor Rehabilitation;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2013 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Venice
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0296-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-936968-80-0