Independence, and improve life quality are the goals of Rehabilitation activity. Today Virtual reality (VR) as an auxiliary tool promotes the treatment process and its effectiveness. VR rehabilitation has the potential to create an environment where patent in safe and secure conditions , feel the effect of his treatment. There are lots of different kinds of VR rehabilitation including Simulation exercises, video game , telerehabilitation, gait analysis , simulation of phobias environments ,….
In all of these methods environments and software can be adjusted to the patient’s condition based on treatment goals. According to studies ,VR can decrease rehabilitation time as much as 50% for certain neuromuscular and skeletal disorders.
Currently, many companies are developing virtual reality application in this field. They can be rehabilitation services, including the medicine realms environment, special gloves and controllers, medical approach games,… .
VR benefits in Rehabilitation
- Recognizes the patient’s complexity
- Relearning ability
- Maximum patient interaction and collaboration with his physician
- Motivating patient towards treatment
- Do rehabilitation with feedback
- Reduce Possible Risks
- Increased patient interaction
- Reduce the cost of treatment
- Reduce treatment time