A Repertoire of Virtual-Reality, Occupational Therapy Exercises for Motor Rehabilitation Based on Action Observation
There is a growing interest in action observation treatment (AOT), i.e., a rehabilitative procedure combining action observation, motor imagery, and action execution to promote the recovery, maintenance, and acquisition of motor abilities. AOT studies employed basic upper limb gestures as stimuli, b...
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| author | Emilia Scalona Doriana De Marco Maria Chiara Bazzini Arturo Nuara Adolfo Zilli Elisa Taglione Fabrizio Pasqualetti Generoso Della Polla Nicola Francesco Lopomo Maddalena Fabbri-Destro Pietro Avanzini |
| author_facet | Emilia Scalona Doriana De Marco Maria Chiara Bazzini Arturo Nuara Adolfo Zilli Elisa Taglione Fabrizio Pasqualetti Generoso Della Polla Nicola Francesco Lopomo Maddalena Fabbri-Destro Pietro Avanzini |
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| description | There is a growing interest in action observation treatment (AOT), i.e., a rehabilitative procedure combining action observation, motor imagery, and action execution to promote the recovery, maintenance, and acquisition of motor abilities. AOT studies employed basic upper limb gestures as stimuli, but—in principle—the AOT approach can be effectively extended to more complex actions like occupational gestures. Here, we present a repertoire of virtual-reality (VR) stimuli depicting occupational therapy exercises intended for AOT, potentially suitable for occupational safety and injury prevention. We animated a humanoid avatar by fitting the kinematics recorded by a healthy subject performing the exercises. All the stimuli are available via a custom-made graphical user interface, which allows the user to adjust several visualization parameters like the viewpoint, the number of repetitions, and the observed movement’s speed. Beyond providing clinicians with a set of VR stimuli promoting via AOT the recovery of goal-oriented, occupational gestures, such a repertoire could extend the use of AOT to the field of occupational safety and injury prevention. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f0a96f38c88c4f40a9b75f03ae4691a72023-11-23T13:26:19ZengMDPI AGData2306-57292022-01-0171910.3390/data7010009A Repertoire of Virtual-Reality, Occupational Therapy Exercises for Motor Rehabilitation Based on Action ObservationEmilia Scalona0Doriana De Marco1Maria Chiara Bazzini2Arturo Nuara3Adolfo Zilli4Elisa Taglione5Fabrizio Pasqualetti6Generoso Della Polla7Nicola Francesco Lopomo8Maddalena Fabbri-Destro9Pietro Avanzini10Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, ItalyConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, ItalyConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, ItalyConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, ItalyConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, ItalyCentro di Riabilitazione Motoria, INAIL, 56048 Volterra, ItalyCentro di Riabilitazione Motoria, INAIL, 56048 Volterra, ItalyCentro di Riabilitazione Motoria, INAIL, 56048 Volterra, ItalyConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, ItalyConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, ItalyConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, ItalyThere is a growing interest in action observation treatment (AOT), i.e., a rehabilitative procedure combining action observation, motor imagery, and action execution to promote the recovery, maintenance, and acquisition of motor abilities. AOT studies employed basic upper limb gestures as stimuli, but—in principle—the AOT approach can be effectively extended to more complex actions like occupational gestures. Here, we present a repertoire of virtual-reality (VR) stimuli depicting occupational therapy exercises intended for AOT, potentially suitable for occupational safety and injury prevention. We animated a humanoid avatar by fitting the kinematics recorded by a healthy subject performing the exercises. All the stimuli are available via a custom-made graphical user interface, which allows the user to adjust several visualization parameters like the viewpoint, the number of repetitions, and the observed movement’s speed. Beyond providing clinicians with a set of VR stimuli promoting via AOT the recovery of goal-oriented, occupational gestures, such a repertoire could extend the use of AOT to the field of occupational safety and injury prevention.https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/7/1/9action observation treatmentupper limbkinematicsUnity 3Dvisual perspectiveoccupational safety |
| spellingShingle | Emilia Scalona Doriana De Marco Maria Chiara Bazzini Arturo Nuara Adolfo Zilli Elisa Taglione Fabrizio Pasqualetti Generoso Della Polla Nicola Francesco Lopomo Maddalena Fabbri-Destro Pietro Avanzini A Repertoire of Virtual-Reality, Occupational Therapy Exercises for Motor Rehabilitation Based on Action Observation Data action observation treatment upper limb kinematics Unity 3D visual perspective occupational safety |
| title | A Repertoire of Virtual-Reality, Occupational Therapy Exercises for Motor Rehabilitation Based on Action Observation |
| title_full | A Repertoire of Virtual-Reality, Occupational Therapy Exercises for Motor Rehabilitation Based on Action Observation |
| title_fullStr | A Repertoire of Virtual-Reality, Occupational Therapy Exercises for Motor Rehabilitation Based on Action Observation |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Repertoire of Virtual-Reality, Occupational Therapy Exercises for Motor Rehabilitation Based on Action Observation |
| title_short | A Repertoire of Virtual-Reality, Occupational Therapy Exercises for Motor Rehabilitation Based on Action Observation |
| title_sort | repertoire of virtual reality occupational therapy exercises for motor rehabilitation based on action observation |
| topic | action observation treatment upper limb kinematics Unity 3D visual perspective occupational safety |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/7/1/9 |
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