Virtual sensory feedback for gait improvement in neurological patients
We review a treatment modality for movement disorders by sensory feedback. The natural closed-loop sensory-motor feedback system is imitated by a wearable virtual reality apparatus, employing body-mounted inertial sensors and responding dynamically to the patient’s own motion. Clinical trials have s...
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| description | We review a treatment modality for movement disorders by sensory feedback. The natural closed-loop sensory-motor feedback system is imitated by a wearable virtual reality apparatus, employing body-mounted inertial sensors and responding dynamically to the patient’s own motion. Clinical trials have shown a significant gait improvement in patients with Parkinson's disease using the apparatus. In contrast to open-loop devices, which impose constant-velocity visual cues in a treadmill fashion, or rhythmic auditory cues in a metronome fashion, requiring constant vigilance and attention strategies, and in some cases, instigating freezing in Parkinson’s patients, the closed-loop device improved gait parameters and eliminated freezing in most patients, without side effects. Patients with multiple sclerosis, previous stroke, senile gait and cerebral palsy using the device also improved their balance and gait substantially. Training with the device has produced a residual improvement, suggesting virtual sensory feedback for the treatment of neurological movement disorders. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-93ecab1d188a4e76b2a77e9f49868cca2022-12-21T18:10:57ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Neurology1664-22952013-10-01410.3389/fneur.2013.0013858844Virtual sensory feedback for gait improvement in neurological patientsYoram eBaram0Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyWe review a treatment modality for movement disorders by sensory feedback. The natural closed-loop sensory-motor feedback system is imitated by a wearable virtual reality apparatus, employing body-mounted inertial sensors and responding dynamically to the patient’s own motion. Clinical trials have shown a significant gait improvement in patients with Parkinson's disease using the apparatus. In contrast to open-loop devices, which impose constant-velocity visual cues in a treadmill fashion, or rhythmic auditory cues in a metronome fashion, requiring constant vigilance and attention strategies, and in some cases, instigating freezing in Parkinson’s patients, the closed-loop device improved gait parameters and eliminated freezing in most patients, without side effects. Patients with multiple sclerosis, previous stroke, senile gait and cerebral palsy using the device also improved their balance and gait substantially. Training with the device has produced a residual improvement, suggesting virtual sensory feedback for the treatment of neurological movement disorders.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2013.00138/fullvirtual realitySensory feedbackGait improvementclosed-loop gait regulationSensory-motor control |
| spellingShingle | Yoram eBaram Virtual sensory feedback for gait improvement in neurological patients Frontiers in Neurology virtual reality Sensory feedback Gait improvement closed-loop gait regulation Sensory-motor control |
| title | Virtual sensory feedback for gait improvement in neurological patients |
| title_full | Virtual sensory feedback for gait improvement in neurological patients |
| title_fullStr | Virtual sensory feedback for gait improvement in neurological patients |
| title_full_unstemmed | Virtual sensory feedback for gait improvement in neurological patients |
| title_short | Virtual sensory feedback for gait improvement in neurological patients |
| title_sort | virtual sensory feedback for gait improvement in neurological patients |
| topic | virtual reality Sensory feedback Gait improvement closed-loop gait regulation Sensory-motor control |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2013.00138/full |
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