H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2024

StrokeCare · Mixed reality for upper-limb stroke rehabilitation

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-09-01 → 2024-05-01
Финансиране от ЕС: 160 932 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Смесената реалност, комбинираща виртуални елементи с реални предмети, се тества за възстановяване на движението на ръцете след инсулт. Това помага за подобряване на физическите и когнитивните функции на пациентите и въвежда по-точни методи за измерване на техния прогрес.

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Резултати накратко

Mixed reality for upper-limb stroke rehabilitation

The present Marie Sklodowska Curie Action (MSCA) project “Mixed reality for upper-limb stroke rehabilitation - StrokeCare” focuses on using new technologies for upper limb rehabilitation post-stroke. Stroke's increasing prevalence and the resultant mortality and disability make this research crucial. The World Health Organization (WHO) identifies stroke as a leading cause of disability and death worldwide. Between 1990 and 2019, the incidence and deaths due to stroke, prevalence, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY) have risen.The project targets stroke patients (at least six months post-stroke), where functional recovery slows but remains vital. Developing evidence-based rehabilitation techniques is paramount. The innovation of the StrokeCare project lay in the way cutting-edge MR interfaces were used to promote upper limb paresis rehabilitation: the combination of real objects and VR in rehabilitation. This method addresses the challenge therapists face in implementing VR due to limited IT skills. Currently, clinical scores assess upper limb function recovery, but they are time-consuming and biased. The project explored kinematics (motion analysis) for a more precise and complementary recovery measurement. The overall objectives of the project are to study: Oa. Whether and how cutting-edge MR rehabilitation programs can have a positive impact on functional and affective measures of upper limb deficits in brain-damaged patients. Ob. Whether an MR motor rehabilitation program of the upper limb has a beneficial effect on the recovery of cognitive function, and more particularly, on attention deficits. Oc. Whether motion analysis of upper limb, and more precisely jerk measurements, could be used as a measure of functional assessment and thus indicate motor recovery. Conclusions: 1. The fellowship demonstrated that upper limb paresis in chronic stroke patients could be rehabilitated using an MR interface, showing a 2.53-point increase in the Fugl-Mayer Assessment (FMA) scale in the MR group versus 0.07 in the control group. 2. Kinematics provided a rapid assessment of upper limb function concerning gross manual dexterity, evidenced by a Pearson correlation of 59 with the Box and Block test.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The recovery of the functional use of the upper limb is a main goal of rehabilitation in stroke survivors. Despite the development of many rehabilitation programs, upper limb paresis following a stroke still results in disability and a great societal cost. Attention deficits are also common in these patients. Here we propose two mixed-reality (MR) interventions to improve functional outcomes of the rehabilitation interventions as compared with classic rehabilitation programs. MR interfaces allow patients to use real world objects while interacting with virtual images, which enhances the use of real world objects. Virtual Reality allows recreating an ecological setting, which is key to the transfer of the rehabilitation outcomes. In the first intervention, patients will be able to train with real and also the same virtual objects and that in an enriched environment. To better understand how MR contributes to the mechanisms of neuroplasticity, in this first experiment, we also seek to compare cinematic measures of object manipulation (virtual vs. real). In the second MR intervention, an avatar will mimic the patient’s gestures and movements with real objects. This will give the patient an allocentric perspective of their movement. Moreover, these interventions will allow us to test the hypothesis that a MR motor training environment might have a beneficial effect on attention. Participants will be recruited from the pool of patients from the stroke outpatient program of NISA Hospital and clinical staff will contribute to data collection. The outcomes of those interventions will be compared with the outcomes of the conventional rehabilitation program (i.e. occupational therapy and physiotherapy without virtual or MR). We will not only assess motor function, but also attention and motivation. We expect to find better outcomes by following the MR interventions.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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