title: Virtual Reality in the Rehabilitation of Patients with Neurological Disorders.
abstract: Neurological disorders affect the lifestyle and the living conditions of a patient. Virtual Reality is a technology that may be used to simulate various types of tasks in a computerized environment guiding the patient and help on rehabilitation. This review try to answer how Virtual Reality technologies can effect on the patients rehabilitation's results. Treatments which involves Virtual Reality applications offer new ways to make the patients more committed to their program and keeps them motivated. Another characteristic of a Virtual Reality treatment is that both patients and therapists can observe the mistakes made during a physiotherapy session. The insert of VR sessions in traditional rehabilitation therapy of patients with neurological disorders have produced positive results.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Department, Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece.
authors.forename: Antonios
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kefaliakos
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Pliakos
authors.affiliation: Nursing Department, Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece.
authors.forename: Panagiotis
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kiekkas
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Martha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Charalampidou
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Marianna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diomidous
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D014584:User-Computer Interface