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Virtual reality exposure therapy for neuro-psychomotor recovery in adults: a systematic review.

Luan FreitasSabrina de Araújo ValFrancisco MagalhãesFrancisco Victor Costa MarinhoCarla AyresSilmar TeixeiraVictor Hugo do Vale Bastos
Published in: Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology (2019)
Virtual reality supports the rehabilitation process of neuro-psychomotor functions, allowing potential gains in the patients' recovery. Therefore, its development facilitates its availability and access in the future.Implications for rehabilitationIt has minimal adverse effects during the virtual therapies performance, such as the presence of vertigo related to cybersickness conditions, suggesting virtual reality as a safe rehabilitation tool, compared to other therapies.Virtual reality use is useful and effective in helping the rehabilitation process of motor, cognitive and psychosocial functions.It plays a role as an adjunctive and complementary therapy in the neuro-psychomotor rehabilitation process to obtain a clinically significant result.
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