Virtual Reality (VR), developed by therapists, has become a complementary care offer, particularly for the treatment of lower limbs, which makes it possible to carry out quantified assessments and varied, immersive rehabilitation exercises that can be configured in real time.
And this technological innovation is attracting more and more interest from scientists and research.
Take the example of a patient to be managed following ACL reconstruction: Gokeler et al (2016) explain that patients who had the green light to return to sport following ACL reconstruction had altered movement patterns in the operated knee, resulting in a risk of relapse or injury to the contralateral limb. Rehabilitation with VR improved these patterns, approximating those of healthy subjects. Immersive VR can improve the assessment of return to sport criteria and motor learning rehabilitation to decrease the risk of relapse in post ACL reconstruction patients [1].
The Virtualis VR solutions will enable: Active and quantified proprioception work, support recovery and quantification, strengthening, and joint stability work.
Virtualis is a company founded by a physiotherapist who has been developing Virtual Reality (VR) assessments and exercises since 2015, using an internal team of physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
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[1] Gokeler, Alli; Bisschop, Marsha; Myer, Gregory D.; Benjaminse, Anne; Dijkstra, Pieter U.; van Keeken, Helco G.; van Raay, Jos J. A. M.; Burgerhof, Johannes G. M.; Otten, Egbert (2016). Immersive virtual reality improves movement patterns in patients after ACL reconstruction: implications for enhanced criteria-based return-to-sport rehabilitation. Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, 24(7), 2280-2286. doi:10.1007/s00167-014-3374-x