Home-Based Nonimmersive Virtual Reality Training After Discharge From Inpatient or Outpatient Stroke Rehabilitation
Feasibility RCT evaluates home-based nonimmersive VR training post-stroke, demonstrating high adherence and safety with potential benefits for balance and mobility.
Home-based Upper Extremity Stroke Therapy Using a Multiuser Virtual Reality Environment
This RCT evaluates home-based multiuser VR for upper extremity stroke rehabilitation, demonstrating feasibility and comparable motor improvements to conventional therapy.
VA/DOD Clinical practice guideline for the management of stroke rehabilitation
This VA/DoD clinical practice guideline provides comprehensive, evidence-based recommendations for stroke rehabilitation across motor, cognitive, and psychosocial domains.
Effects of virtual reality for stroke individuals based on the International Classification of Functioning and Health
Systematic review evaluating VR effects on stroke rehabilitation using the ICF framework, finding benefits primarily in body function and activity domains.
Stroke rehabilitation
This seminal review synthesizes stroke rehabilitation evidence, emphasizing multidisciplinary stroke unit care, task-specific training, high-intensity practice, and early mobilization.
The Effects of Virtual Reality Training on Post-Stroke Upper and Lower Limb Function: A Meta-Analysis
This meta-analysis evaluates VR training effects on post-stroke upper and lower limb function, demonstrating significant improvements in motor outcomes.
What is Task-Oriented Training? A Scoping Review
This scoping review examines definitions and components of task-oriented training in rehabilitation, identifying inconsistencies in terminology and highlighting the need for standardized definitions.
Improving poststroke recovery: Neuroplasticity and task-oriented training
This review describes neuroplasticity principles underlying poststroke motor recovery, emphasizing experience-dependent plasticity and task-oriented training as key rehabilitation strategies.
A novel fully immersive virtual reality environment for upper extremity rehabilitation in patients with stroke
Randomized controlled trial demonstrating that fully immersive VR combined with conventional therapy significantly improved upper extremity motor function in stroke patients.
Updates in Motor Learning: Implications for Physical Therapist Practice and Education
This perspective describes four distinct motor learning mechanisms with unique neural substrates, offering practical implications for developing more precise physical therapy interventions.