You should be able to go to to any stroke doctor or therapist in the world and get Virtual Reality intervention protocols to help your stroke deficits. But that will never occur, everything in stroke is a fucking failure and no one is working on solving all the fucking problems in stroke. Hopefully you have enough money to hire your own researchers to solve these problems.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/Blogs/IltifatHusain/64522?
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center recently published
the results of the use of virtual reality (VR) on their inpatient
service in a large feasibility study that we previously covered. Cedars
has followed up on this study by publishing a second VR study -- this
time a systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on
inpatient virtual reality use.
In this systematic review, RCTs from 2005-2015 were evaluated, with a
total of 2,024 initially reviewed and 11 meeting the inclusion
criteria. These 11 ended up covering three general areas: eating
disorders, rehabilitation (motor, cognitive), and pain management. Most
studies demonstrated clinical efficacy but were limited, as expected, by
significant heterogeneity and small sample sizes. Inpatient pain
management was one of the most common topics addressed in the reviewed
studies, including the popular burn-management pain therapy articles we previously noted.
Very few side effects were noted, and patient satisfaction with the VR
treatments was primarily positive throughout the review.
It's
not surprising that several studies were noted in the rehabilitation
arena in the review. One investigated the use of VR with traumatic brain
injury patients (TBI), while another looked into stroke rehab with VR.
The American Stroke Association's latest clinical practice guidelines
(2016) include recommendations for VR in stroke rehab, with Level A
evidence for use in hemineglect, and Level B or C evidence for use in
other areas (gait, upper limb motor, activities of daily living,
cognition, and visual-spatial therapy). Notice that these are fucking lazy guidelines, NOT PROTOCOLS, more incompetence in action.
VR technology has been available for many years, with various designs going back to the 1960s,
but it wasn't until recently that the technology has become mainstream.
As such, research into the use of VR in healthcare has recently greatly
increased and will likely continue to do so as such systems become more
accessible. This systematic review concluded that "VR will undoubtedly
shape the future of healthcare."
I completely agree and am excited to see what is in store for us!
This article originally appeared on iMedicalApps.com.
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