Background Chronic diseases contribute to high rates of disability and mortality. Patient
engagement in chronic disease self-management is an essential component of chronic …

There are many successful interventions in medicine, especially in neurology and
rehabilitation. The neurosciences represent an area of medicine with tremendous recent …

Research has increasingly focused on wearable systems that provide informative haptic
sensations to the hands, enhancing user interaction in virtual reality (VR) and augmented …

Virtual reality is a novel technology that provides users with an immersive experience in 3D
virtual environments. The use of virtual reality is expanding in the medical and nursing …

Many university-taught courses moved to online form since the outbreak of the global
pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Distance learning has become broadly used …

Introduction The emergence of gaming technologies, such as videogames and virtual reality,
provides a wide variety of possibilities in intensively and enjoyably performing rehabilitation …

Abstract The Box and Block Test (BBT) has been widely used to assess gross upper
extremity (UE) motor function. We designed a haptic-feedback virtual reality (VR) system …

Upper limb motor impairment (ULMI) rehabilitation is a long-term, demanding and
challenging process to recover motor functionality. Children and adolescents may be limited …

Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of motor disability in the pediatric population,
with hemiplegia as one of the most widely seen subtypes of spastic CP. Although most of the …

Background The transfer of the behaviors of a human's upper limbs to an avatar is widely
used in the field of virtual reality rehabilitation. To perform the transfer, movement tracking …