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Experiences of treadmill walking with non-immersive virtual reality after stroke or acquired brain injury - A qualitative study.

Karin TörnbomAnna Danielsson
Published in: PloS one (2018)
Participants' thoughts and experiences indicated that the Virtual Reality walking system could serve as a complement to more traditional forms of walking training. Early after a brain injury, virtual reality could be a way to train the ability to handle individually adapted multisensory input while walking. Obvious benefits were that participants perceived it as engaging and exciting.
Keyphrases
  • virtual reality
  • brain injury
  • subarachnoid hemorrhage
  • lower limb
  • mental health
  • cerebral ischemia
  • physical activity
  • blood brain barrier
  • high speed