Virtual reality game-based therapy for treatment of postural and co-ordination abnormalities secondary to TBI: a pilot study.

Primary Objective: The study objective was to test the efficacy of game-based virtual reality (VR) therapy as a mean of correcting postural and co-ordination abnormalities in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Therapy was done with interactive customized VR games and scenarios, utilizing an Xbox Kinect sensor.

Research Design: The study was a pilot project using the structure of a phase II clinical trial.

The effect of additional hand contact on postural stability perturbed by a moving environment.

Additional hand contact of external objects has been shown to reduce postural instability caused by a deficiency of one or more senses. Little is known, however, if additional contact can help in an environment where the senses are available but conflicting. This question was investigated by analyzing the effect of different types of hand contact on postural stability perturbed by the moving visual scene.