Steven Truijen|Auwal Abdullahi|Danique Bijsterbosch|Eline van Zoest|Maaike Conijn|Yonglan Wang|Nele Struyf|Wim Saeys
Effect of home-based virtual reality training and telerehabilitation on balance in individuals with Parkinson disease, multiple sclerosis, and stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis
University of Antwerp|University of Antwerp|University of Antwerp|University of Antwerp|University of Antwerp|University of Antwerp|University of Antwerp|University of Antwerp
last decade growing interest use virtual reality rehabilitation clinical home settings aim systematic review summary current evidence effect homebased virtual reality training telerehabilitation postural balance individuals central neurological disordersliterature searched pubmed web science pedro sciencedirect medline randomized controlled trials rcts evaluating effect homebased virtual reality vr training telerehabilitation tr postural balance patients parkinsons disease multiple sclerosis stroke studies imported endnote excel perform two screening phases four reviewers risk bias assessed using pedro scale cochrane assessment tool risk bias synthesis data comparative outcomes performed using revman softwareseven rcts included three pathologies represented vr tr consisted training device eg nintendo wii xbox 360 monitoring device eg skype microsoft kinect five studies used berg balance scale bbs measuring postural balance across studies improvement bbs scores time experimental control groups effect remained followup groups however significant difference groups postintervention md 074 p 045homebased vr tr used prolongation conventional therapy