Effective post-stroke rehabilitation through Virtual Reality Assisted Therapy

The aim of stroke rehabilitation is to significantly increase the patient’s quality of life. In addition to traditional therapy, the use of more widespread consumer electronics (e.g. smart phones, tablets, gesture-controlled devices or virtual reality devices) can help to support the rehabilitation. The use of such technologies in the home or outpatient environment as well as in ​​rehabilitation and health facilities makes higher therapy frequencies and therapy times possible. Thus, impairments (e.g. after the loss of mobility or speech) can be treated more specifically. A reduced ability to act autonomously can be eliminated, the quality of life can be increased and subsequently a self-determined life can be promoted. In addition, economic consequences arising from the treatment of impairments and patient care could in many cases be reduced.

The University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria (“FH Gesundheitsberufe OÖ GmbH”) acts as a scientific partner of the Upper Austrian medical device start-up “Rewellio GmbH” in this project. By creating awareness for the special requirements in the area of ​​cognition and speech therapy as well as by supporting the conception of patient profiles, the university enables its project partner to implement individual, tailor-made therapy concepts, which directly address patients’ needs. In addition, the functions and usability of the software can be tested in the course of the clinical trials.

• Partner: Georg Teufl MSc, Rewellio GmbH