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- Title
Eficácia da combinação do Nintendo Wii® e fisioterapia convencional na independência funcional de indivíduos hemiparéticos pós-acidente vascular cerebral: ensaio clínico randomizado.
- Authors
de Souza Filho, Marcio Ribeiro; da Silva Ribeiro, Nildo Manoel; Costa Borges Souza, Daniele; Sales, Matheus; Melo, Ailton
- Abstract
Background: In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of non-immersive virtual reality (NIVR) treatment in post-stroke patients. Objective: The objective of this study is to analyze the efficacy of the combination of non-immersive virtual reality through the Nitendo Wii® console and kinesiotherapy in the functional independence of post-stroke hemiparetic individuals. Methods: Blind randomized clinical trial; 48 volunteers randomly grouped, being 57.5% male with an average age of 55.6 years. These were allocated into 3 treatment groups: Virtual Reality Group (VRG), Cinesiotherapy Group (CG) and Virtual Reality and Cinesiotherapy Group (VRCG). Each group with 16 participants, held 16 sessions of 50 minutes each, twice a week for 8 weeks. Functional independence was assessed by the Barthel Modified Index (BMI) pre and post treatment. Results: No significant differences were found with respect to age, gender, stroke time and affected hemibody. The groups were homogeneous in relation to these variables. No statistically significant differences were detected between any of the 3 groups (among groups) before treatment compared to the post-treatment in BMI variables. In the intra-group comparison, in some areas of BMI, positive changes were observed, mainly in the groups that used only nonimmersive virtual reality. Conclusion: Non-immersive virtual reality as a rehabilitation therapy showed no difference in the level of functional independence of the patients, but this technique in combination with kinesitherapy or alone, or only kinesitherapy, can be used without damage in post stroke hemiparetic patients.
- Subjects
PHYSICAL therapy; MATHEMATICAL variables; HEMIPLEGIA; FUNCTIONAL assessment; STATISTICAL sampling; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX distribution; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; AGE distribution; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; VIRTUAL reality; STROKE rehabilitation; STROKE patients; HEALTH outcome assessment; VIDEO games; TIME
- Publication
Fisioterapia Brasil, 2020, Vol 21, Issue 5, p455
- ISSN
1518-9740
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.33233/fb.v21i5.3960