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Virtual reality technology in personalized rehabilitation of patients with acute ischemic stroke

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(1) The purpose of research is an evaluation of clinical and paraclinical factors effects for VR-therapy efficiency during acute ischemic stroke period. VR rehabilitation course using was provided to 80 patients with diagnosed ischemic stroke. We assessed the significance of neuropsychological, clinical, demographic indicators on effectiveness of cognitive and physical VR rehabilitation programs using following parameter scales: MoCA, BI, NIHSS, IQCODE, HADS, MFI-20, AES, BPAQ-24, additional scales for praxis evaluation, semantic aphasia, perception and executive function. (2) Results demonstrate different correlations between rehabilitation factors. Attention, perception, pre-stroke cognitive deficit, affective disorders, sex, age and lesion side were significant both for cognitive and for physical VR-based rehabilitation programs. Also, some other factors for VR program choosing were highlighted. (3) Conclusion: VR rehabilitation programs, based on mathematical modelling with clinical and paraclinical parameters, can provide fully controlled virtual experimental environment for cognitive and motor functions recovery and expand the recovery potential of the patient.

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This study was performed within the scope of the Agreement #FZWM-2020-0013, “Priority 2030” Program.

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  1. Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Nevskogo st., Kaliningrad, 236041, Russia

    Anastasia Tynterova, Natalia Shusharina & Matvey Khoymov

  2. Federal St. Petersburg State Medical University Named After I. P. Pavlov, Lev Tolstoy st., St. Petersburg, 197022, Russia

    Evgenii Barantsevich

  3. National Research Medical Center for Psychiatry and Neurology, Bekhterev st., St. Petersburg, 192019, Russia

    Alexey Rozhdestvensky

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AMT, MD, PhD—concept and design of the study, sampling of patients for the study and material processing, drafting the text; NNS, PhD—scientific management, statistical data processing; ERB, MD, PhD, DSci, professor—editing the relevance of the study section, background, body of the manuscript, literature list; MSK—statistical data processing; ASR, MD, PhD, DSci, professor—organizational management.

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The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the Independent Ethical Committee of the Center for Clinical Research of Kant Baltic Federal University (Protocol No. 2 of April 27, 2021).

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Tynterova, A., Shusharina, N., Barantsevich, E. et al. Virtual reality technology in personalized rehabilitation of patients with acute ischemic stroke. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-023-01079-x

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