Effectiveness of Virtual Reality and Virtual Reality with Home Based Self Induced Movement Therapy in Improving the Upper Extremities Motor Recovery after Stroke

INTRODUCTION: Stroke is one of the commonest neurological emergencies. Stroke is the third most common cause of death in the developed world after cancer and ischemic heart disease and is responsible for a large proportion of physical disability becoming more frequent with increasing age. Stroke affects approximately 5, 00,000 new victims each year with the estimated number of stroke survivors close to 3 million. In India, there is some evidence that stroke is particularly common in young people. Every year more than 15 million world wide have a stroke. 5 million Die, 5 million recover and 5 million are disable. Mostly stroke occurs at the age of 35- 65years they can also occur in much younger people too. OBJECTIVE: The aim of study was To find out the effectiveness of visual reality and visual reality with home based self induced movement therapy in improving on upper extremities motor recovery after stroke. DESIGN: Tstudy was apre test and post test control group study. PARTICIPANTS: 20 subjects, age 35 to 65 years each subject recived visual reality and visual reality with home based self induced movement therapy for 2 months of period each subjects. OUTCOME MEASURE: The Upper Extremity Function Test (UEFT). Fugal-Meyer Assessment Scale before and after treatment. RESULT: Statistical analysis done by using Mann-Whitney U test and Wilcox on-signed ranks test showed that there was significant improvements of upper extremities. CONCLUSION: There significant rise in stoke subjects recived visual reality and visual reality with home based self induced movement therapy