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A Repertoire of Virtual-Reality, Occupational Therapy Exercises for Motor Rehabilitation Based on Action Observation

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  • Emilia Scalona

    (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, Italy)

  • Doriana De Marco

    (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, Italy)

  • Maria Chiara Bazzini

    (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, Italy
    Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Parma, 43125 Parma, Italy)

  • Arturo Nuara

    (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, Italy)

  • Adolfo Zilli

    (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, Italy)

  • Elisa Taglione

    (Centro di Riabilitazione Motoria, INAIL, 56048 Volterra, Italy)

  • Fabrizio Pasqualetti

    (Centro di Riabilitazione Motoria, INAIL, 56048 Volterra, Italy)

  • Generoso Della Polla

    (Centro di Riabilitazione Motoria, INAIL, 56048 Volterra, Italy)

  • Nicola Francesco Lopomo

    (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, Italy
    Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy)

  • Maddalena Fabbri-Destro

    (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, Italy)

  • Pietro Avanzini

    (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 43125 Parma, Italy
    Istituto Clinico Humanitas, 20089 Milano, Italy)

Abstract

There is a growing interest in action observation treatment (AOT), i.e., a rehabilitative procedure combining action observation, motor imagery, and action execution to promote the recovery, maintenance, and acquisition of motor abilities. AOT studies employed basic upper limb gestures as stimuli, but—in principle—the AOT approach can be effectively extended to more complex actions like occupational gestures. Here, we present a repertoire of virtual-reality (VR) stimuli depicting occupational therapy exercises intended for AOT, potentially suitable for occupational safety and injury prevention. We animated a humanoid avatar by fitting the kinematics recorded by a healthy subject performing the exercises. All the stimuli are available via a custom-made graphical user interface, which allows the user to adjust several visualization parameters like the viewpoint, the number of repetitions, and the observed movement’s speed. Beyond providing clinicians with a set of VR stimuli promoting via AOT the recovery of goal-oriented, occupational gestures, such a repertoire could extend the use of AOT to the field of occupational safety and injury prevention.

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  • Emilia Scalona & Doriana De Marco & Maria Chiara Bazzini & Arturo Nuara & Adolfo Zilli & Elisa Taglione & Fabrizio Pasqualetti & Generoso Della Polla & Nicola Francesco Lopomo & Maddalena Fabbri-Destr, 2022. "A Repertoire of Virtual-Reality, Occupational Therapy Exercises for Motor Rehabilitation Based on Action Observation," Data, MDPI, vol. 7(1), pages 1-10, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jdataj:v:7:y:2022:i:1:p:9-:d:721937
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