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Quantification and Rehabilitation of Unilateral Spatial Neglect in Immersive Virtual Reality: A Validation Study in Healthy Subjects

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Unilateral spatial neglect is a common sensorimotor disorder following the occurrence of a stroke, for which prismatic adaptation is a promising rehabilitation method. However, the use of prisms for rehabilitation often requires the use of specific equipment that may not be available in clinics. To address this limitation, we developed a new software package that allows for the quantification and rehabilitation of unilateral spatial neglect using immersive virtual reality. In this study, we compared the effects of virtual and real prisms in healthy subjects and evaluated the performance of our virtual reality tool (HTC Vive) against a validated motion capture tool. Ten healthy subjects were randomly exposed to virtual and real prisms, and measurements were taken before and after exposure. Our findings indicate that virtual prisms are at least as effective as real prisms in inducing aftereffects (4.39° ± 2.91° with the virtual prisms compared to 4.30° ± 3.49° with the real prisms), but that these effects were not sustained beyond 2 h regardless of exposure modality. The virtual measurements obtained with our software showed excellent metrological qualities (ICC = 0.95, error = 0.52° ± 1.18°), demonstrating its validity and reliability for quantifying deviation during pointing movements. Overall, our results suggest that our virtual reality software (Virtualis, Montpellier, France) could provide an easy and reliable means of quantifying and rehabilitating spatial neglect. Further validation of these results is required in individuals with unilateral spatial neglect.
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hal-04059941 , version 1 (05-04-2023)

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Germain Faity, Yasmine Sidahmed, Isabelle Laffont, Jérôme Froger. Quantification and Rehabilitation of Unilateral Spatial Neglect in Immersive Virtual Reality: A Validation Study in Healthy Subjects. Sensors, 2023, 23 (7), pp.3481. ⟨10.3390/s23073481⟩. ⟨hal-04059941⟩
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