Chapter 7 Accelerating rehabilitation through AR/VR solutions

Enrique Calderon-Sastre and Gunarajulu Renganathan

Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Poongavanam Palani

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

Priyanka Ramasamy and Yuichi Kurita

Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Saša Ćuković

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – ETH Zurich, Institute of Biomechanics, Zurich, Switzerland

DOI: 10.1201/9781003306078-10

7.1 Introduction

Rehabilitation is the set of interventions performed to regain or optimize physical, mental, or social functions previously compromised due to illness, injury, trauma, or aging (Cieza et al. 2020; Stucki et al. 2018; Stucki, Cieza, and Melvin 2007). The purpose of rehabilitation is not oriented ...

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