Narrative review reveals virtual reality applications improve multidomain functional recovery in stroke survivors, highlighting its promise as an adjunct to traditional rehabilitation.
Rehabilitation of patients after an ischemic stroke is a complex and time consuming process that requires coordinated interaction between specialists of different specialisations. Functional outcomes in patients can vary from asymptomatic lesions to complete incapacity and depend on the location of the stroke, premorbid background, the time of initiation of therapy, its duration, and other factors. Goals of medical rehabilitation include not only motor rehabilitation, but also the restoration of cognitive, affective, visual, speech and many other disorders. The development of rehabilitation methods that have a minimum number of contraindications or no contraindications remains relevant. One of the promising methods that complement traditional rehabilitation is virtual reality technology. The article describes modern technologies of virtual reality and methods of their application in medical rehabilitation.
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