New Virtual Reality Technology May Improve Motor Skills in Damaged Limbs
From: Medical Design Technology - 12/15/216

A combination of traditional physical therapy and technology may improve the
motor skills and mobility of an impaired hand by having its partner, more
mobile hand lead by example through virtual reality training, new Tel Aviv
University research suggests.

The researchers are optimistic that this research could be applied to
patients in physical therapy programs who have lost the strength or control
of one hand. "We need to show a way to obtain high-performance gains relative
to other, more traditional types of therapies," said Prof. Roy Mukamel of Tel
Aviv University's School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of
Neuroscience. "If we can train one hand without voluntarily moving it and
still show significant improvements in the motor skills of that hand, we've
achieved the ideal."

The researchers are currently examining the applicability of their novel VR
training scheme to stroke patients.

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