07/20/2022
Parkinson’s Disease- a neurodegenerative disease.
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) occurs due to the degradation of neurons present in substantia nigra and straital pathway. PD is characterized by motor and nonmotor symptoms such as rigidity, bradykinesia, resting tremor, autonomic and cognitive dysfunctions, sleep disorders, and sensory disturbances.
In recent years, virtual reality (VR) as a therapeutic tool has become a new topic in neurorehabilitation research. From the perspective of kinematics learning, VR provides a possibility for high-intensity, task-oriented and multi-sensory feedback training, which can promote patients’ visual, auditory and tactile input.
In one systematic review, total of 555 patients with PD in 16 studies suggested that rehabilitation training based on VR technology is likely more effective than conventional training in improving PD patients’ balance function mobility, step and stride length, quality of life and neuropsychiatric symptoms. As the patients gets visual and auditory feedback he can improve the ability of the brain to perceive, process and integrate information, so that patients can better maintain balance, improve step and stride length and control posture.
Here at Health and Human Performance Institute we use VR for different neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic brain injury training.
