Article

Unilateral spatial neglect is a common consequence of stroke that directly
affects the performance of activities of daily living. This impairment is
traditionally assessed with paper-and-pencil tests that can lack correspondence
to real life and are easily compensated. Virtual reality can immerse patients in
more ecological scenarios, thus providing therapists with new tools to assess and
train the effects of this impairment in simulated real tasks. This paper presents
the clinical validation and convergent validity of a low-cost virtual reality
system for training street-crossing in stroke patients with and without neglect.
The performance of neglect patients was significantly worse than the performance
of non-neglect and healthy participants. In addition, several correlations
between the scores in the system and in the traditional scales were detected.

Langue : ANGLAIS