Virtual rehabilitation

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Virtual rehabilitation refers to the use of virtual reality for the therapy of psychological, neurological, physiological or cognitive diseases. The therapy is partially or fully supported by the use of the technology.

The term virtual rehabilitation (virtual rehabilitation, sometimes also cybertherapy) was coined in 2002 at the first workshop on "Virtual Reality Rehabilitation (Mental Health, Neurological, Physical, Vocational) VRMHR 2002" in Lausanne, Switzerland. Since then, corresponding research from the fields involved ( computer science , medicine , therapy , psychology , robotics , neurology ) has been summarized under this keyword. In 2008 the International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation was founded.

Virtual rehabilitation enables a number of added values ​​compared to conventional therapy:

  • Increased patient motivation to cooperate
  • Automatic recording and evaluation of therapy data
  • Possibility of offering home therapy or teletherapy, in which part of the therapy takes place with a spatial and / or temporal separation of patient and therapist.
  • Potential for the development of new types of therapy that would be inconceivable without the use of technology.

The physio and occupational therapy benefits of the technology is as yet largely in the form of case studies documented. A better level of evidence can be attested for use in psychotherapy . The treatment of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder in the USA is now carried out with the help of virtual reality.

Since the use of head-mounted displays found its way into the representation of virtual realities , there have been numerous projects in psychology and psychotherapy that deal with the field of exposure therapy . There is also evidence that the stress levels of hospital patients can be reduced through the use of virtual reality and that 360-degree videos can contribute to relaxation. In the meantime, there are also guided meditations in German, in which mindfulness exercises are presented as 360-degree videos.

Individual evidence

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