Publications by authors named "Vijay Karunakaran"

Background: Developing culturally appropriate, scalable interventions to meet the growing needs for stroke rehabilitation is a significant problem of public health concern. Therefore, systematic development and evaluation of a scalable, inclusive, technology-driven solution for community-based stroke care are of immense public health importance in India. ReWin is a digital therapeutics platform that was developed systematically.

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This is a viewpoint paper that aims to describe the systematic approach to the development of a technology-driven stroke rehabilitation innovation to manage disabilities following a stroke at home in India. This paper intends to sensitize public health innovators and intervention development experts about the important aspects that need to be considered to develop a culturally sensitive, patient-centered, scalable solution for stroke care using technology. Stroke has been the second-leading cause of death and the third-leading cause of disability globally for the past 3 decades.

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Introduction: Virtual Reality technology helps in creating virtual environments for evaluation of visual performance of low vision individuals with holistic experience. The purpose of this study was to develop a virtual reality (VR) platform for the objective assessment of functional vision in patients with low vision in two categories, central and peripheral vision loss .

Materials And Methods: Focus group discussions (FGD) were organized to understand the difficulties faced on a day to day basis by patients with low vision.

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Patients with Low vision are known to experience difficulties in executing activities of daily living and visual search due to reduction in vision. There is a need to translate clinical parameters into a real world that is relevant so as to understand the patient's functional vision; this can be possible with virtual reality (VR). This prospective study included 53 normal and 30 low vision subjects older than 18 years of age in a tertiary care center.

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