Utopic Studios, a firm linked to podcast, has developed collaboration with the research group ImagoBrain of the Universitat Jaume I, which consists of principal investigators in both Dr. Cristina Forn I la Dr. Carla Sanchis, at the cost of theMultiple Sclerosis Association of Castelló, a virtual reality program aimed at rehabilitating in parallel the cognitive and motor functions of people with multiple sclerosis.
The study s'emmarca in the project Neurorehabilitation and functional recovery in multiple sclerosis (MS): Evaluation of due therapeutic strategies using functional magnetic resonance imaging, financial Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities to measure the effectiveness and aim of promoting a real improvement in the physical and cognitive status of patients and increasing, in the short and long term, the quality of life.
The sorgeix project in 2017 at the request of theMultiple Sclerosis Association of Castelló, which is going to be involved from the beginning in your development, contributing to the experience of your personal and the detection of needs in relation to the associated patients. For això, Utopian Studies use l'eina Ikinsu to carry out, in a controlled manner, various rehabilitation and therapy exercises, mitjançant l'us of immersive virtual reality.
To Spain at the voltant of 1.800 people are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis each yearCurrently, there are about 47.000 people affected by this disease. It is tracta d'una degenerative and chronic malaltia of the central nervous system It is one of the most common neurological disorders among the population between 20 and 40 years old. Unless it cures and efforts are focused on exploring innovative ways that improve the quality of life of children and slow down their evolution, this is the need to resolve the development of a disease to apply intense therapy to them. cognitive stimulation.
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Immersive virtual reality allows you to recreate a varied, entertaining and stimulating environment that generates in the patient a state of positive mood that considerably improves brain and cognitive performanceUsing new technologies, it is possible to systematically control the presentation of the stimuli, the establishment of parameters, distractors and other variables and the measurement of results.
It should be noted that immersive virtual reality can treat the fòbies reproduced in real and secure environments, to achieve exposure of patients to the cause of the problem without risk for all subjects and under the absolute control of the professional. Per seua, in the field of physical rehabilitation, virtual reality provides the reproduction of stimulating and visually attractive environments, with absolutely immersive dynamic activities, with which the necessary motivation is obtained to achieve a recovery of functional capacity in general.
The exercises ofIkinsu, They are designed as a dual task with the objective of stimulating both the part of aerobic exercise, manual eye coordination, balance and joint range together with cognitive variables, such as, focused attention, sustained attention and speed of processament of the information. Un altre dels objectius d'Ikigai Neurolab is to stimulate simple dominis cognitius (verbal fixation memory, work memory, attention, executive functions, etc.) about daily life tasks that are virtually simulated, which aims to achieve cognitive rehabilitation based on tasks that can be extrapolated to real life.
