Kinematic Metrics Based on the Virtual Reality System Toyra as an Assessment of the Upper Limb Rehabilitation in People with Spinal Cord Injury | Zendy

Fernando Trincado-Alonso | Zendy; Iris Dimbwadyo-Terrer | Zendy; Ana de los Reyes-Guzmán | Zendy; Patricia López-Monteagudo | Zendy; Alberto Bernal-Sahún | Zendy; Ãngel Gil-Agudo | Zendy

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Kinematic Metrics Based on the Virtual Reality System Toyra as an Assessment of the Upper Limb Rehabilitation in People with Spinal Cord Injury

Author(s) -

Fernando Trincado-Alonso,

Iris Dimbwadyo-Terrer,

Ana de los Reyes-Guzmán,

Patricia López-Monteagudo,

Alberto Bernal-Sahún,

Ãngel Gil-Agudo

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

biomed research international

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772

H-Index - 126

eISSN - 2314-6141

pISSN - 2314-6133

DOI - 10.1155/2014/904985

Subject(s) - kinematics , virtual reality , rehabilitation , physical medicine and rehabilitation , spinal cord injury , computer science , set (abstract data type) , physical therapy , medicine , spinal cord , artificial intelligence , physics , classical mechanics , psychiatry , programming language

The aim of this study was to develop new strategies based on virtual reality that can provide additional information to clinicians for the rehabilitation assessment. Virtual reality system Toyra has been used to record kinematic information of 15 patients with cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) while performing evaluation sessions using the mentioned system. Positive correlation, with a moderate and very strong association, has been found between clinical scales and kinematic data, considering only the subscales more closely related to the upper limb function. A set of metrics was defined combining these kinematic data to obtain parameters of reaching amplitude, joint amplitude, agility, accuracy, and repeatability during the evaluation sessions of the virtual reality system Toyra. Strong and moderate correlations have been also found between the metrics reaching and joint amplitude and the clinical scales.

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