PARKINSONVR: Virtual Reality as an Assistant in Physiotherapeutic Treatments for Patients with Parkinson's Disease
Keywords:
Physiotherapy, Parkinson Disease, Virtual Reality, RehabilitationAbstract
Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by tremors, bradykinesia, rigidity, loss of postural reflex, gait problems, and the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. While there is no cure for PD, there are various effective treatments to assist in daily life, one of which is physiotherapy. Physiotherapy can help minimize the progression of the disease and improve the patient's quality of life. However, conventional physiotherapy treatments are often seen as repetitive and demotivating for patients, affecting the effectiveness of the treatment. To avoid this problem, new treatment practices combined with physiotherapy are being studied, such as the use of virtual reality (VR). Therefore, this work presents a computational VR application to assist in physiotherapeutic treatments for PD patients using interactive and customized 3D virtual environments. The application was evaluated by the researchers involved in the project through a usability questionnaire specific to this type of environment, obtaining a final average of (4.77), a standard deviation of (0.35), and a confidence interval of [4.46; 5.08], being considered suitable for future tests on real patients.
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