Background: the occurrence of new stroke cases is estimated at 15 million worldwide every
year representing the second leading cause of death worldwide during a given ten year period.
patients with significant arm paresis recover useful function, so it is crucial to find new
75% of stroke survivors suffer from upper limb paresis: studies suggest that only 50% of
Methods and Results: We first made an analysis of movements offered by the MindMotionPRO
techniques of rehabilitation and high-performance outcome measurements tools. Virtual Reality (VR) represents a valuable technology for training the cognitive and motor functions of stroke patients. Successful rehabilitation requires a valid and reliable assessment methodology for tracking the therapy progress.
carried out in order to correlate the selected tools to this platform. Among the investigated
VR motor rehabilitation platform. Then a literature review of outcome measurement tools was
scale of the movements trained by the VR platform.
motricity and motor function outcome measures, we found that the Fugl-Meyer scale (FM) is the most appropriate, evaluation by its tested movements and its good validity, sensitivity, responsiveness, reliability and its good correlation with ADL in accordance with MindMotionPRO motor rehabilitation exercises.
Discussion: The movement analysis of the VR platform is well suited to neurorehabilitation in the acute phase. After a literature review, the FM scale was chosen as an adequate evaluation
Conclusions: We recommend using the FM scale to evaluate the outcome of training with this VR platform. Further studies are planned to show the effectiveness of this training also in the post-acute phase.