Virtual reality rehabilitation for stroke patients: Recent review and research issues

Your doctor was correct in not reading or bringing in all those older research trials on VR. No point in being a leader when you can just wait for a review like this and bring in the best. Except that your doctor probably won't read this review either. You'll have to take on the challenge of training your doctor of the finer and newer points of stroke rehab. Good luck with that, hope your doctor is trainable. And all those earlier stroke patients that could have been helped by bringing in VR earlier. Well, so what?
http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.5012226

AIP Conference Proceedings 1905, 050007 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5012226

Eza Surya Mohd Arip^1,a), Waidah Ismail^1,b), Md Jan Nordin^2,c), and Abduljalil Radman^1,d)

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Abstract

Stroke is one of the main causes of disability in the world. In order for stroke survivors to reduce their disability, they need to go through a rehabilitation process to regain back their independence and improve their quality of life. To guide patients in their rehabilitation process and improve their receptiveness in performing repetitive exercises, a new rehabilitation training program using Virtual Reality (VR) technology has been introduced. This has attracted many researchers to explore more on VR technology as a new tool for stroke patient’s rehabilitation. This paper presents a review on existing VR systems that have been developed for stroke rehabilitation. First, recent VR systems utilized for rehabilitation after stroke are delineated and categorized. Each of these categories concludes with a discussion on limitations and any issues that arise from it. Finally, a concise summary with significant findings and future possibilities in VR rehabilitation research is presented in table format.