The Challenges and Perspectives of the Integration Between Virtual and Augmented Reality and Manual Therapies.

balance cybersickness head-mounted display multisensory integration presence simulation touch

Journal

Frontiers in neurology
ISSN: 1664-2295
Titre abrégé: Front Neurol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101546899

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2021
Historique:
received: 25 04 2021
accepted: 07 06 2021
entrez: 19 7 2021
pubmed: 20 7 2021
medline: 20 7 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have been combined with physical rehabilitation and psychological treatments to improve patients' emotional reactions, body image, and physical function. Nonetheless, no detailed investigation assessed the relationship between VR or AR manual therapies (MTs), which are touch-based approaches that involve the manipulation of tissues for relieving pain and improving balance, postural stability and well-being in several pathological conditions. The present review attempts to explore whether and how VR and AR might be integrated with MTs to improve patient care, with particular attention to balance and to fields like chronic pain that need an approach that engages both mind and body. MTs rely essentially on touch to induce tactile, proprioceptive, and interoceptive stimulations, whereas VR and AR rely mainly on visual, auditory, and proprioceptive stimulations. MTs might increase patients' overall immersion in the virtual experience by inducing parasympathetic tone and relaxing the mind, thus enhancing VR and AR effects. VR and AR could help manual therapists overcome patients' negative beliefs about pain, address pain-related emotional issues, and educate them about functional posture and movements. VR and AR could also engage and change the sensorimotor neural maps that the brain uses to cope with environmental stressors. Hence, combining MTs with VR and AR could define a whole mind-body intervention that uses psychological, interoceptive, and exteroceptive stimulations for rebalancing sensorimotor integration, distorted perceptions, including visual, and body images. Regarding the technology needed to integrate VR and AR with MTs, head-mounted displays could be the most suitable devices due to being low-cost, also allowing patients to follow VR therapy at home. There is enough evidence to argue that integrating MTs with VR and AR could help manual therapists offer patients better and comprehensive treatments. However, therapists need valid tools to identify which patients would benefit from VR and AR to avoid potential adverse effects, and both therapists and patients have to be involved in the development of VR and AR applications to define truly patient-centered therapies. Furthermore, future studies should assess whether the integration between MTs and VR or AR is practically feasible, safe, and clinically useful.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34276550
doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.700211
pmc: PMC8278005
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Pagination

700211

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 Cerritelli, Chiera, Abbro, Megale, Esteves, Gallace and Manzotti.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

VM was employed by company Softcare Studios. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Francesco Cerritelli (F)

Foundation COME Collaboration, Pescara, Italy.

Marco Chiera (M)

Foundation COME Collaboration, Pescara, Italy.

Marco Abbro (M)

Foundation COME Collaboration, Pescara, Italy.

Valentino Megale (V)

Softcare Studios, Rome, Italy.

Jorge Esteves (J)

Foundation COME Collaboration, Pescara, Italy.

Alberto Gallace (A)

Department of Psychology, Bicocca University, Milan, Italy.

Andrea Manzotti (A)

Foundation COME Collaboration, Pescara, Italy.
RAISE Lab, Foundation COME Collaboration, Milan, Italy.
SOMA Istituto Osteopatia Milano, Milan, Italy.

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