Jogo sério baseado em Realidade Virtual para reabilitação de indivíduos com paresia de membro superior decorrente de Acidente Vascular Encefálico (AVE)

Abstract

Vascular Encephalic Accident (VEA), also known as Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) or stroke is a serious disease, which is the third leading cause of death in the world and the number one cause of sequelae in the United States. In fact, studies show that about 66% of stroke survivors will have their limbs weakened and dysfunctional. Because of this, many stroke survivors, especially those with sequelae, need physical therapy to recover their motor skills. It is known that effective rehabilitation must be intensive and repetitive, which leads to the challenge of how to keep patients motivated. Therefore, in this work, a serious game is presented, with Virtual Reality techniques, which aims to assist in rehabilitation exercises of upper limbs post-stroke. Its development was assisted by the master student Gabriel Cyrino in the Virtual and Augmented Reality Group of the Federal University of Uberlândia. Although there are similar initiatives in the literature, the differential of this proposal is based on three fundamentals: the game's photorealism, the possibility of integrating game results with patients' medical records, from there the health professional's ability to configure the game to attend to new rehabilitation protocols and finally integration with a motion sensor that will support arm movements.